IBM already provide access to z/OS to Universities teaching z/OS / z/VM in the IBM Academic Initiative via the Dallas RDP systems.
I taught several units at Canberra university here in Australia. The class sizes varied between 8 and 20 students. Units were offered as part of a Masters IT degree, with specialization in mainframe. I covered z/VM, Unix Systems Services, DB2/COBOL programming, REXX/CICS. The advantage of the Dallas systems is that they are looked after by IBM professional systems programmers. The zPDT has some of the overheads of a bigger box, whereas the z/VM hosted z/OS virtual LPARS have all the maintenance done for you. On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe IBM can offer uni's a version of zPDT that can run on multi-socket > rack servers so they don't have to subsidize hardware, only software. > I'm sure that would be more than capable for running z/OS with more than > acceptable performance. > > > On 19/06/2013 4:22 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: >> >> Yes, sorry about that. Well, the problem probably got fixed ~10 years ago. >> Which is better than, say, ~5 years ago. >> >>> It is my faded-memory impression that it was, as Timothy pointed >>> out, DEC's aggressive push of very low-cost and free "stuff" into >>> universities that both permitted and accelerated the rise of *ix >>> and also contributed to the decline of IBM mainframes on campus >>> (though that was not the only reason). >> >> My recollection is that DEC didn't really want it that way. DEC would have >> very much preferred if VMS and/or TOPS-10/20 got more popular in academia. >> Sure, DEC was happier if BSD UNIX ran on their PDP or VAX hardware rather >> than somebody else's hardware, but in hindsight that wasn't enough. >> >> It's impossible to re-run history, but I suspect that if DEC didn't >> provide >> subsidized hardware to run AT&T's/BSD's operating system then there'd just >> be some other subsidized hardware performing the same role. It would have >> been something of early 1970s vintage that competed with the PDP-11. Maybe >> something from CDC, Data General, or Honeywell/Prime. There was also a >> fortuitous bit of DARPA funding aimed at Berkeley that helped UNIX at a >> critical stage in its evolution. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Timothy Sipples >> GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) >> E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
