[ale] OT: How different is z/OS from Linux/Unix?

Greg Clifton gccfof5 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 21:14:21 EST 2010


I have it on good authority [The History Channel] that the 0 was an Indian
invention.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> What's the roman numeral for zero?
>
> I don't think that had one.  It's a relatively advanced concept.
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> wrote:
> > Charles Shapiro wrote:
> >> Ha!  When I started programming, we had to use ONLY ONES 'cause ZEROS
> >> WEREN'T INVENTED YET!!!!
> >
> > I think 0s came first???
> >
> >>
> >> -- CHS
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Chris Fowler
> >> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 21:16 -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
> >>>> I used to know some guys who could look at the 1 and 0's that were
> >>>> saved at each clock cycle in the cpus and tell you what operation the
> >>>> computer was doing and if it was working.  Still blows my mind.
> >>> It is called necessity.
> >>>
> >>> Think about us that started with Linux near the beginning.   There were
> >>> no GUI configuration programs.  There was no Ubuntu to make most of the
> >>> hardware just work.  We used vi to configure X.  We compiled a kernel
> >>> specific to our computer.  Out of necessity we became masters of the OS
> >>> and today, now that Linux is basically a walk in the park, it was a
> huge
> >>> benefit to us.  When the "easy to use" disiti fails to be plug-n-play
> we
> >>> can usually work around it.
> >>>
> >>>
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