Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux

Ralf Baechle <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Back to the topic - a general purpose OS just doesn't seem to be very
> sensible for any typical application of a programmable disk drive which
> I can think of.  But putting things like RAID etc. there sounds great.
> Sounds like the thing which IBM calls I/O channel or something like that.

	Ya know, I've been finding it rather interesting that all the
tech that IBM/DEC developed for their mainframe lines back in the
1960s/1970s is coming back to haunt us...

	IO Channel		->		STP

	IBM 3270		->		HTML
	  (page based 
	   interaction)

	Mainframe/Terminal	->	Server/Thin Client

	Clustering		->		Clustering 	;^)

	I have this crazy feeling that the ``PC Revolution'' will be viewed 
in the grand scheme of things as the ``What the HECK were we thinking?'' 
score. (You know, score=20 years, as in `four score and ten years ago')

	And now that IBM has System 390s running Linux... ...shiver...
Was that a ghost of a MVS programmer spinning in his grave?

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