Re: Inside an IBM z17

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Sun, 4 May 2025 20:53:42 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
>

You should check out Martin's "Design of Real-Time Computer Systems"
which was written in the early days of SAABRE and other transaction
processing systems.

>
Their idea of “real time” was responding in a few seconds, before the user
got frustrated enough to hit SEND again.

My experience: 360/30, 64K, 1968, locally attached 2260s, BTAM
application, instantaneous response.

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Dan Espen