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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by DrJokepu on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:19PM (#47590591)
I only ever worked with the Linux/Windows variant. I can’t believe I am saying this about an IBM product, but I found it to be actually rather pleasant to work with.
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by hxugufjfjf on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @04:14PM (#47592834)
You’d never say that if you’ve been on the inside of a mainframe DB2. shudders
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by cyberpunk on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @04:27PM (#47593013)
It’s def got 80’s hacker movie vibes, typing “Iniate log rotation sequence;” etc just screams out for a green terminal emulator.
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by anthk on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:39PM (#47603217)
As an IBM hobbyist user, picture something worse than VMS in 'hackerdom'. IBM's mainframe OSes are like NT/OS2 taken to the total extreme with objects, because by default you don't see files but objects which might have files... or not.

Imagine the antithesis of Emacs. That's an IBM environment with 3270 terminals and obtuse commands to learn.

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