You mean a 'new' technology like this reference? VMSHARE has been the conferencing system of the VM Cluster of SHARE since August 1976. After VMSHARE was closed down in August 1998 it was decided that the database should be kept available for reference. Read here the announcement of that by Ross Patterson. The best way to get a feeling for what VMSHARE meant to its users is probably by browsing through the VMSHARE Archives where you will find appends like this. It may also be helpful to read Melinda Varian's History of VM to get a better understanding of the community that has developed around VM and VMSHARE.
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/ Daney, C., The VMSHARE Computer Conferencing Facility. In Computer Message Systems, ed. by Ronald P. Uhlig, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1982, 115-127. /Tom Kern On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:11:47 -0500, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Xephon did a great job in providing this service through the years. >But in this day and age I don't see the need for an expensive service like >this. > >If you look at the open source communities you will see lots of code and >ideas freely exchanged between users. >Apart from the several listservers the mainframe community is the only one >that lacks this kind of open exchange of ideas and code. >The listservers also provided a great servers during the years but it lacks >a structured way in categorizing and storing valuable information. > >I think its time for us(old mainframers) to jump on the "new " age >technologies like blogging, forums and wiki's to preserve our knowledge and >pass it on to the next mainframe generation. > >-- >Ian >http://www.cicsworld.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
