On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:44 PM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote:
> W dniu 2017-03-24 o 18:04, Pommier, Rex pisze: > >> The only thing I wish he would have included in the presentation was the >> original 9672/9674 which was a huge shift from the GA-AS technology to >> silicon. >> > > I wish I hadn't worked on pre-9672 machines. > Was it really non-silicon? I was pretty sure it was silicon, but ECL, not > CMOS. > > BTW: > What about LPARs? > Yes. In "partitioned mode". > How HMC looked like? Was it PC-DOS-based? > No HMC. The console looked like a 3270 which was "built into" the machine. Older ones had _dials_ and _buttons_ and _LIGHTS_! Oh, how I miss the lights. > What about I/O cards? were they similar to cards available in 9672? > What OSA options were available? > No OSAs. Had to have an outboard controller on a regular byte multiplexer channel (not block or selector). > What about cryptoHW? > <giggle> No co-processor cards. Unless you think of integrated channels as a co-processor, that is. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
