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... with still no way for anyone to (reasonably) learn outside of the Master the Mainframe learning system or cranking out thousands for z/PDT.
by kotaKat 5y ago
... with still no way for anyone to (reasonably) learn outside of the Master the Mainframe learning system or cranking out thousands for z/PDT.
- rbanffy 5y agoOne of my biggest complaints about the Master The Mainframe thing is that they give you an up and running machine. There are very few ways to onboard from the very basics. You don't learn (at least I didn't got that far) to install software and services. I know you buy it fully configured according to what you ordered (every unit is custom-built, the ultimate luxury computer - take that, Apple) but, still, most people will have no idea what to even ask for or what the possibilities are. Having a hobby license for z/PDT or z/OS would be awesome, but I don't think it's coming. IBM got mad when the Hercules crowd started selling Hercules as sort of an off-ramp for mainframe users.