(new) Big Iron

RIP Gene Amdahl - (Another Scott) - (1) - Nov. 12, 2015, 10:24:02 PM EST

Yep, he's one of those computier pioneers. - (a6l6e6x) - Nov. 13, 2015, 09:18:45 AM EST

Big iron on the big screen - (rcareaga) - (5) - Jan. 9, 2013, 11:21:31 PM EST

The one to the left of fly argaric - (crazy) - (1) - Jan. 10, 2013, 04:48:59 AM EST

I left that one to be discovered - (rcareaga) - Jan. 10, 2013, 03:21:24 PM EST

Yet the output has remained constant - (scoenye) - (2) - Jan. 10, 2013, 08:31:00 PM EST

I'm reading Red Dwarf - (crazy) - (1) - Jan. 11, 2013, 11:57:14 AM EST

One of my fav sources of 'quotes' too.. - (Ashton) - Jan. 11, 2013, 06:31:57 PM EST

Happy 50th Birthday to the hard drive! - (dmcarls) - Sept. 13, 2006, 10:47:50 AM EDT

So what's UFAM? - (drewk) - (18) - Aug. 28, 2006, 12:04:21 PM EDT

you sure he said ufam? - (boxley) - (8) - Aug. 28, 2006, 02:49:15 PM EDT

google UFAM mainframe - (drewk) - (7) - Aug. 28, 2006, 02:54:07 PM EDT

Appears to be a file format? - (ChrisR) - (6) - Aug. 28, 2006, 04:55:12 PM EDT

My (limited) understanding - (drewk) - (5) - Aug. 28, 2006, 04:59:40 PM EDT

Wasn't that supposed to be one of the magical things about - (Another Scott) - (4) - Aug. 28, 2006, 05:07:00 PM EDT

Maybe the 400 was bringing that from the frame world ... - (drewk) - Aug. 28, 2006, 05:27:58 PM EDT

Yup "DB2/400" IS the filesystem. -NT - (imric) - (2) - Aug. 28, 2006, 06:31:12 PM EDT

As an interesting side note - (jake123) - (1) - Aug. 28, 2006, 06:59:14 PM EDT

So, explain what "Oracle's Raw Disk Access" is? - (folkert) - Aug. 28, 2006, 07:15:52 PM EDT

Clueless - (broomberg) - Aug. 28, 2006, 03:45:19 PM EDT

Please have the grey beards define UFAM for you. - (folkert) - (2) - Aug. 28, 2006, 05:12:02 PM EDT

So? (Playing devil's advocate) - (drewk) - (1) - Aug. 28, 2006, 05:27:08 PM EDT

HAHA. - (folkert) - Aug. 28, 2006, 07:12:59 PM EDT

Any real definition of UFAM? - (folkert) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 02:23:29 PM EDT

I don't have a dog in that fight - (drewk) - Aug. 29, 2006, 02:27:22 PM EDT

And my MF guru's response: - (broomberg) - (2) - Aug. 29, 2006, 07:21:31 PM EDT

First link on Google seemed to be referencing it - (drewk) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 08:01:56 PM EDT

And when you ask - (broomberg) - Aug. 29, 2006, 08:45:14 PM EDT

Big old iron - interview w/ENIAC co-creator - (rcareaga) - (5) - Feb. 14, 2006, 07:52:14 PM EST

Neat. Thanks for the link. -NT - (Another Scott) - Feb. 14, 2006, 08:55:58 PM EST

Thanks, Rand! - (a6l6e6x) - Feb. 14, 2006, 09:04:24 PM EST

thanx! - (SpiceWare) - Feb. 15, 2006, 10:25:01 AM EST

thanks - definitely big iron there (or maybe glass :) ) -NT - (Steve Lowe) - Feb. 15, 2006, 12:01:38 PM EST

'I have one word for you, son' - (Ashton) - Feb. 28, 2006, 05:28:24 AM EST

JES question - (broomberg) - Jan. 31, 2006, 02:56:37 PM EST

Moving this to Big Iron. - (Another Scott) - (4) - July 15, 2004, 11:03:37 PM EDT

nothy crustier than a joke explained -NT - (boxley) - (3) - July 16, 2004, 09:23:40 AM EDT

Thank you. Thank you. I'll be here all week. -NT - (Another Scott) - (2) - July 16, 2004, 09:46:29 AM EDT

whoosh - (boxley) - (1) - July 16, 2004, 09:56:23 AM EDT

D'oh! -NT - (Another Scott) - July 16, 2004, 10:21:02 AM EDT

The 2321 Data Cell Drive - (Meerkat) - (3) - May 31, 2004, 09:51:47 PM EDT

We had a couple in Sydney - 1 at Circular Quay - (dmarker) - June 1, 2004, 07:19:17 PM EDT

Another link. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - June 5, 2004, 10:33:32 PM EDT

Thanks guys, interesting stuff! -NT - (Meerkat) - June 6, 2004, 07:10:05 PM EDT

Hey Meerkat - Another stupid JCL question - (broomberg) - (8) - May 30, 2004, 10:33:29 AM EDT

Reaching way back here - (morganek) - (2) - May 30, 2004, 04:16:34 PM EDT

X in 72 is normal for cont IIRC - (dmarker) - (1) - May 30, 2004, 11:53:43 PM EDT

Nah, that's application specific - (broomberg) - May 31, 2004, 12:03:45 AM EDT

So, how did the sysprog fix it? - (Meerkat) - (4) - May 30, 2004, 06:16:46 PM EDT

Exactly correct - (broomberg) - (3) - May 31, 2004, 12:02:29 AM EDT

RPG programmers tell me we've got it easy. :) -NT - (Meerkat) - (2) - May 31, 2004, 12:07:57 AM EDT

RPG is kinda cool - (broomberg) - (1) - May 31, 2004, 12:20:24 AM EDT

*smile* -NT - (imric) - May 31, 2004, 03:31:17 AM EDT

OS/360 historic, architectural information? - (inthane-chan) - (9) - April 12, 2004, 08:06:26 AM EDT

What are you looking for? - (jbrabeck) - (3) - April 12, 2004, 09:28:29 AM EDT

Just about anything related to the OS architecture. - (inthane-chan) - (2) - April 12, 2004, 10:44:50 AM EDT

You may want to look at Hercules. - (Another Scott) - April 12, 2004, 10:54:36 AM EDT

Sorry, can't help. Me being an Application Programmer then. -NT - (jbrabeck) - April 12, 2004, 01:13:54 PM EDT

The Mythical Man-Month - (ben_tilly) - April 12, 2004, 01:55:17 PM EDT

Here's more, maybe. - (a6l6e6x) - April 12, 2004, 02:04:13 PM EDT

Thanks all! - (inthane-chan) - April 12, 2004, 11:58:14 PM EDT

Are u still looking ? - in another life .. - (dmarker) - (1) - May 30, 2004, 11:49:30 PM EDT

That was soooo last quarter. :D - (inthane-chan) - May 31, 2004, 12:21:23 AM EDT

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