On 06/02/2017 11:25 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
The third area were all mini computers of various
manufacturers and all ran Unix software. Those who worked on the
mini computers were a species unto themselves and seriously thought
that their systems had more power than our four floors of mainframe
hardware. They were a conceited self-inflated bunch of *******s.

Let me see... I'd like to run my latest code through an assembler. I can
run it on the PDP-11 over in the corner, or submit it to the OS/370 gods
running the timeshare system along with a goat and get the job back in a
day or two after they get done running the quarterly reports. Difficult
decision.

In later days I moved to CP/M. It might not have been more powerful but
IT wasn't going to buy a $12,000 Z-80 cross assembler to run on the
mainframe.