In <m3iqcgkcqb....@garlic.com>, on 12/08/2009
at 11:11 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> said:
>for the 3090 service processor ... it started out with 4331 running a
>highly customized version of vm370 release6
ITYM VM/SP R6; I don't believe that IBM was still using VMF/370 (free VM)
internally by the time the 3090 came out.
>DOS/VS was for virtual storage. 370 was initially announced w/o virtual
>memory (just a few new instructions, TOD-clock, a few other things).
But there were strong indications that the 370/145 had paging. The
implementation of the DOS Emulator Feature only made sense if the hardware
was designed for paging.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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