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To: mrknowitall who wrote (11424)	10/19/1998 5:06:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Respond to of 74651

LOL! See, and people are so quick to say legacy systems like TSO etc. are dead and shouldn't be a consideration in new architecture designs. Many of my network designs for customers still deal with these "mature" types of systems (friendly way of saying old-crap) interfacing with demands of users living in the 90's. But they are too mission critical to be ignored. I also have to interface with these systems on a daily basis to access many of our internal systems - ie. change management systems, resource directory, profs, time tracking, expense tracking, etc. EEKKK! Toy

To: mrknowitall who wrote (11424)	10/19/1998 6:04:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

mr k. You don't need to be old to know about IBM stuff, just "lucky" enough to work for someone with a pile of mainframes. I was such a lucky person out of college to land a job at McDonnell Douglas with the largest IBM shop on the face of the earth. It also helped that as a programmer I had free access to my very own copy of every manual I could have ever wanted. IBM if one thing only, they had very extensive documentation. I was a rebel and wrote my code in IBM pascal, PL/1 and rexx, instead of cobol or fortran. All in all it was really nice to be in such a large consistent environment, actually liked PROFS, long before office calendar systems and email even existed on PC's.