The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Kern) writes: > You could save some money by running SLES10 and the linux version of > LSoft's LISTSERV product. > > No z/OS or z/VM necessary. recent posts mentioning listserv history http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#75 Rotary phones http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#76 Rotary phones on (vm-based) bitnet/earn: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet including the following reference: 1991 The international BITNET network reached its peak, connecting some 1,400 organizations in 49 countries for the electronic, non-commercial exchange of information in support of research and education. Thanks largely to the volunteer efforts of Eric Thomas, BITNET provided thousands of electronic mailing lists based on LISTSERV. Eric Thomas did not want his software to disappear with the mainframes. Therefore, he started looking for ways to port LISTSERV to other environments, such as VMS and Unix. ... snip ... from this site: http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/history_listserv.asp predating listserv on bitnet was the internal corporate vm-based online conferencing facility that had options that would run in LISTSERV-like mode as well as a USENET-like mode. and predating all of them was the online computer conference that Tymshare provided to share starting aug76 ... archives: http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/ on their vm-based commercial timesharing platform http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#timeshare some old email with vmshare references http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare one of my hobbies was providing custom, highly modified vm systems to internal locations ... including the HONE infrastructure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone which had sort of started out after the 23jun69 unbundling announcement to provide operating system "hands-on" experience for people in branch offices (running in virtual machines ... starting out with number of deployed cp67 systems). HONE also evolved some number of cms/apl based sales & marketing applications which came to dominant all HONE activity. Eventually HONE "clones" were deployed all over the world ... and it wasn't even possible to submit a customer order that hadn't first been processed by a HONE application. part of what i was doing with vmshare ... was setting up a process where I replicate all the vmshare files (from tymshare) on the various HONE systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
