On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 7:00 AM Lionel B. Dyck <lbd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You found the Personal Edition - the Learner's is much less expensive - > see this article > https://abopen.com/news/ibm-lowers-barrier-to-mainframe-entry-with-zdt-learners-edition-licence/ If that is correct on cost, I could afford it. > > Hope this helps. > Very much. > > And you are correct - in ALL my communications with IBM about the LE they > repeated that it was for educational purposes and NOT to be used to create > software for distribution - not for commercial and not for open-source. > I guess IBM wants it out there for someone like a college student so that they can say "yes" to questions like "Do you know JCL? z assembler? z COBOL?" and so on. Oh course, for me, it would be more for amusement. I guess it would really be better, if I wanted to distribute stuff, like via GitHub, to just stay with Linux on Intel. Much less restrictive. I just like writing assembler. Which is nearly impossible on Lintel. What a messy ISA. And using the assembler, gas, definitely isn't a gas (old slang). > > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com > Github: https://github.com/lbdyck > > “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
