"Requiem for the Mainframe" on CBC-Radio, 4 PM Saturday

[Dave McGuire]

On Dec 15, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Brief notification, but I just heard a blurb announcing as per the 
>> subject
>> line, for those who happen to be near the radio in the next hour and 
>> can tune
>> in the CBC (after the news at 4).
>> (It's on the show "SPARK", if one wishes to try to hear a repeat.)
>> It is about the mainframe computer, but that's all I got ... can't 
>> testify
>> further as to the content.
>
> *Requiem* for the mainframe?  Bleh!!
>
> My living depends on mainframe manufacturing!  As does the living of 
> many of the people in this city!

   Yeah, there are a lot of clueless people out there who have 
absolutely no idea of what the real data processing world looks like.  
Many people honestly believe that their bank transactions, for example, 
are actually processed by Pentiums running Windows.

   I have no problem with people being clueless about a certain thing or 
field...but cluelessness accompanied by assumption, often further 
accompanied by assertion, is infuriating.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL