But if the comment was made by someone whose education is limited to
Intel, he probably is convinced IBM mainframe DOS is equivalent to PC DOS.
Joel C. Ewing
On 12/18/2015 06:31 PM, Clark Morris wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2015 09:44:15 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>
>> Nice, maybe someone should introduce them to the Mainframe Basics Redbook.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, December 18, 2015 12:42 PM, Walter Davies
>> <walter.dav...@edcgov.us> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Our board of supervisors like to say the mainframe is running on DOS. One
>> is an ex intel management employee.
> Since VSE (DOS descendant) is still supported and upgraded (I suspect
> mostly under VM), the statement could be accurate. Are there any
> current IBM references to DOS/VSE? Does anyone run VSE on the bare
> metal?
>
> Clark Morris
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Grinsell, Don <dgrins...@mt.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> Cute. The problem is there's nobody there to call bull$h!t or do a fact
>>> check. We see this sort of testimony here as well often implying that we
>>> are still running an antiquated s/360 that absolutely nobody knows anything
>>> about anymore.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Donald Grinsell
>>> State of Montana
>>> 406-444-2983
>>> dgrins...@mt.gov
>>>
>>> "Hell is other people."
>>> ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org
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