tradition

.NET Framework platform support tradition

From the first days the .NET framework came out there was a minimum OS support: .NET 1.0 - Windows NT or higher (Windows 98/ME are also supported) .NET 2.0 - Windows 2000 or higher (Windows 98/ME are also supported) .NET 3.0 - Windows XP or higher .NET 3.5 - Windows XP or higher This minimum OS support made possible to ignore platfor...

Why do mainframe greybeards refer to DB2/zOS as "he"?

If you ask a DB2/zOS engine DBA a question about DB2's behavior, the DBA will refer to the DB2 engine as "he" much the way a sailor uses "she" to refer to his ship. For example: "Once you fill the freespace, DB2 still wants to keep those rows in cluster order in the tablespace. That's why he'll split that page in half, and you end up w...