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Question..why are you using a mainframe app for music?


Shafik ismail
 

Hello,
I am just wondering why you would need a mainframe app to manage your music when there are plenty PC related apps that works so well and proven already by millions.?

I hope you do not take this the wrong way.. I am not here to advise you one way or another, I am just trying to understand the advantages.

Thank you in advance.
shaf


 

Hello Shafik,

MUSIC stands for Multi-User System for Interactive Computing. It is not an app, it's an (obsolete) operating system for mainframes that was used in academia from 1970 to 2000.

It has nothing to do with music and was never used to listen to music or store/manage tunes and pieces of all kind.

Cheers,

Rene FERLAND, Montreal


 

Shafik ismail wrote:

Hello,
I am just wondering why you would need a mainframe app to
manage your music when there are plenty PC related apps that
works so well and proven already by millions.
(LOL!)

I hope you do not take this the wrong way.. I am not here
to advise you one way or another, I am just trying to understand
the advantages.
MUSIC is a mainframe OPERATING SYSTEM, *not* an app to manage audio files:


*


--
"Fish" (David B. Trout)
Software Development Laboratories

mail: fish@...


 

I thought it was McGill University System for Interactive Computing? I see it was that originally, and then the name wa changed.

Joe

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 12:05 PM René Ferland <ferland.rene@...> wrote:
Hello Shafik,

MUSIC stands for Multi-User System for Interactive Computing. It is not an app, it's an (obsolete) operating system for mainframes that was used in academia from 1970 to 2000.

It has nothing to do with music and was never used to listen to music or store/manage tunes and pieces of all kind.

Cheers,

Rene FERLAND, Montreal


 

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 02:16 PM, Joe Monk wrote:
I thought it was McGill University System for Interactive Computing?
You are right. I remember it had that name when I learned Pascal on it in 1979.

I think they changed the name when it became a System Product, MUSIC/SP instead of just MUSIC.

Rene FERLAND, Montreal


Shafik ismail
 

Ah! Thank you for this information.?
Have fun!

Shafik




On Saturday, June 19, 2021, 5:15 PM, Joe Monk <joemonk64@...> wrote:

I thought it was McGill University System for Interactive Computing? I see it was that originally, and then the name wa changed.

Joe

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 12:05 PM René Ferland <ferland.rene@...> wrote:
Hello Shafik,

MUSIC stands for Multi-User System for Interactive Computing. It is not an app, it's an (obsolete) operating system for mainframes that was used in academia from 1970 to 2000.

It has nothing to do with music and was never used to listen to music or store/manage tunes and pieces of all kind.

Cheers,

Rene FERLAND, Montreal