-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of jack.hamil...@kp.org Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
WYLBUR was used by Stanford and SLAC, and by some other academic=20 institutions.=20 There's a commercial version called SuperWylbur, < http://www.superwylbur.com/>, I think there was another commercial=20 version called Interact from Online Business Systems, but Mr. Google is=20 not being helpful on that. And there were rumors of a DOS or Windows versions, but I was never able=20 to track it down. <SNIP> OBS/WYLBUR (which became ACS/WYLBUR) had WYLBUR/AT which ran under DOS or Windows. I still have a copy on a floppy. But it apparently has some issues with Y2K. We found it interesting that we were client-server capable before anyone had come up with the "client-server" name. To answer another question, ACS/WYLBUR was in use at many university sites, and several US Gov't sites, and some other industries were also using it. We had one insurance industry customer that told us they decided to get off WYLBUR and go to TSO. After moving one department to TSO they realized that they were going to need a CPU upgrade. At that time they had 200+ users per WYLBUR image (and I don't know how many images they had running). We also don't know how big a department was (we assumed about 50 logon accounts). They decided that WYLBUR was not going to go away after all. Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
