XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com   
      
   On 12/22/25 23:41, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/22/25 14:18, rbowman wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:20:37 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Lots of other fun, like doing my own security/kernel updates, running a   
   >>> Linux box at work.  (One manager ran a Mac, apparently supported by IT).   
   >>   
   >> All programmers had a Linux box in addition to a Windows one. The product   
   >> had started on AIX so almost all the code could be built on Linux. IT   
   >> would drop off a bare metal box and leave rapidly. Installing a distro   
   >> and   
   >> maintaining it was strictly on us.   
   >>   
   >> The Esri API was built on COM so I spent more time developing on Windows   
   >> than most of the programmers. There was also a map program built one   
   >> Visual Studio 6.0 that wound up in my lap. I tried to drag it into the   
   >> 21st century but never could. I did a couple of browser based maps but   
   >> the   
   >> clients loved that obsolete POS. I had a powered down XP machine with   
   >> VS6.0 in case I ever had to do a bug fix.   
   >   
   >   
   >    Well ... you can tweak kernel/system files all   
   >    you want - but the first UPDATE and you'll have   
   >    to do it all over again :-)   
   >   
      
   We had the same problem with MVS/ESA. I had a tweak for VSAM performance   
   that was a zap to one of the open SVC modules. Every release it was back   
   to the fiche to fit it back in.   
      
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