Well, I have been rebuked on a couple of differnet levels starting with "You're a real asshole, aren't you?" on my private mail......So for the record....Is "george" a screen name that I should not question? Second, listserves predate the internet, and it's a term you will hear in archaic discussions about IBM mainframes and bitnic............ I have been corrected in any event.
Hey!! The big iron is still involved in something like 65 percent of the lifecycle of financial transactions in the US!
Well, mine isn't 65 percent, but it's up there!
I was actually contacted by a recruiter lately to do some mainframe work.
The stock symbol for the client was MSFT.
Inside joke, sort of. But totally true!!
IMO, you're lucky it was 2AM and the moderator didn't respond to my hitting the abuse button on you. Don't ever speak to me again....please.