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Name: PROD_TPSL
Joined: November 19, 2004
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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
In the beginning was the Command Line. It is the perfect interface for information exchange and command interpretation.
So... yeah. Burroughs Large Systems... like the Burroughs B5000 and their modern lineage the Unisys Clearpath Multi Cellular Processing Libra class machines. I admit to missing a particular Libra model 185. The machine was rock solid. I miss MCP.
Yeah, MCP. Master Control Program.
It's a real OS for real computers.
Ya know, for Mainframes.
Anyway, long story short. I dig the console. It is powerful and informative. It lets me script, program, and execute jobs and processes. It stays out of my way, and it can be whatever I want it to be. Now a Mainframe isn't particularly useful just by itself. You need a transaction processing system, if you're in the financial services industry. My Libra ran MISER, a product of Aurum Technology, now Fidelity National Information Systems. MISER was really cool, and we called our Box by Ebenezer. Anyway, in software environments you will typically have systems divided into regions based upon functional stage. TEST for systems testing, TRAIN for a training environment for system users, RELEASE, for testing a new release of softwares, and the all important PROD, for production systems. You don't fuck with PROD systems. Unless you like bringing a financial entity to it's knees and pissing off the FEDRES and your customers.
A TPSL is a transaction processing security element. It is what actually performs the final process of making sure a EFT, no matter the sort, is performed, either online, or offline in the case of nightly batch runs.
So... PROD_TPSL. My handle comes from the heady days of my youth when I was a console jockey Mainframe SYSOP.
I miss CANDE
MCP fo' LYFE suckas.
In the beginning was the Command Line. It is the perfect interface for information exchange and command interpretation.
So... yeah. Burroughs Large Systems... like the Burroughs B5000 and their modern lineage the Unisys Clearpath Multi Cellular Processing Libra class machines. I admit to missing a particular Libra model 185. The machine was rock solid. I miss MCP.
Yeah, MCP. Master Control Program.
It's a real OS for real computers.
Ya know, for Mainframes.
Anyway, long story short. I dig the console. It is powerful and informative. It lets me script, program, and execute jobs and processes. It stays out of my way, and it can be whatever I want it to be. Now a Mainframe isn't particularly useful just by itself. You need a transaction processing system, if you're in the financial services industry. My Libra ran MISER, a product of Aurum Technology, now Fidelity National Information Systems. MISER was really cool, and we called our Box by Ebenezer. Anyway, in software environments you will typically have systems divided into regions based upon functional stage. TEST for systems testing, TRAIN for a training environment for system users, RELEASE, for testing a new release of softwares, and the all important PROD, for production systems. You don't fuck with PROD systems. Unless you like bringing a financial entity to it's knees and pissing off the FEDRES and your customers.
A TPSL is a transaction processing security element. It is what actually performs the final process of making sure a EFT, no matter the sort, is performed, either online, or offline in the case of nightly batch runs.
So... PROD_TPSL. My handle comes from the heady days of my youth when I was a console jockey Mainframe SYSOP.
I miss CANDE
MCP fo' LYFE suckas.