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A mainframe man !!  Welcome Richard (someone else about my age !  :-) )

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Richard Meyer wrote:
> Hi People,
>
> I've just joined the PLUG mailing list, and I thought I'd introduce
myself.
> (This sounds so much like "Hi my name is Fred and I'm an alcoholic")
>
> I've recently moved to Perth, where I'm working in support and development
> of system software for dinosaurs (IBM mainframes). I've been in the
> business for over 20 years, but I discovered Linux in 1995, and ever since
> then it's been a hobby of mine. At the moment I have a quadruple boot
> machine with Win 98, SuSE 7.3, Mdk 9.0 and RH 8.0. I will be trying to
> install FLEX/ES on my machine under one of the Linuxen to try out some of
> the Mainframe OSes under Linux.
>
> I have used Slackware, Corel, RH, Mdk, SuSE, Ygdrassil (anyone remember
> that) and FreeBSD, as well as HP/UX.
>
> Hope we have a long and rewarding relationship.