> nominally there was a business case that customers then would naturally move > much of their posix >workload to MVS platform
I had been told that one reason for Posix support in MVS was to allow bids for government contracts >supercomputer would send hyperchannel message to the ibm mainframe, the ibm >mainframe would locate >the data (possibly staging to disk) and load dasd >channel program into the hyperchannel device >adapter That's exactly what Cray's "Superlink" product did. It used MVS as a data server, data manager, for the Cray. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
