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This raised a host of questions and more than one correction, but I thought
it better to address most of those off list. But one question can only be
addressed on list.

> Don't get me wrong, I think that teaching mainframers that
> UNIX is really what they are missing in their life...

Is there anyone on this list who only works with the 3000, and nothing else?
For instance, someone who uses a Windows PC to run an emulator, email, and
low-end Office, and their whole day is essentially spent on the 3000. Is
there anyone who does not also have meaningful exposure programming for or
administering an MVS or OS/390 mainframe, an AS/400, some flavor of UNIX or
Linux, comparable NT / W2K Server use (especially running SQL Server or
Oracle), Wintel, DEC, Unisys, Data General, any other platform?

I get the impression that almost everyone here works in a mixed environment,
and can compare their experiences on more than one other platform, or at
least work in a mixed shop where they can observe a team of people whose job
descriptions match their own but for the target platform (which is why it
takes a team of people to do what one person can do on the 3000). I think
even our various vendors work with other platforms at one level or another.

I would miss some people's platforms like I would miss a toothache.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
give me one incomplete sentence
and I can give you back paragraphs