http://hercules390.996247.n3.nabble.com/What-is-the-Telpar-OS-td17474.html Pretty sure they got it running. Fits on 1 track.
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > I have a few more additions: > > 1. These Japanese operating systems are probably worth mentioning: > > Hitachi VOS3 > Fujitsu MSP > Fujitsu XSP > > VOS3 and MSP are proven forks of IBM MVS/XA (at least, and likely also > MVS/ESA). XSP might be a fork of DOS/VSE. (I'm less familiar with that > one.) If you want to hang your hat on supported compatibility with real > world IBM machines then VOS3 probably wins. As I recall, VOS3 officially > runs on z800 and z890 machines, at least. Hitachi built the z800 in a > collaboration with IBM, and also for its own domestic sales in Japan, so > that one is not a great surprise. > > To my knowledge, Fujitsu is still nominally in the mainframe business in > Japan, and their machines are basically ESA/390 machines. Both MSP and XSP > remain ESA (31-bit), as far as I know. Hitachi's Japanese domestic market > machines are ESA/390 machines with very modest, non-z/Architecture 64-bit > extensions that VOS3 only lightly exploits. > > Speaking of related machines, did RCA's operating systems like VMOS and > TSOS ever run on IBM System/360 machines? > > 2. TCSC's EDOS/VS and EDOS/VSE were interesting forks of DOS/VS Release 34. > EDOS/VS and EDOS/VSE were compatible with machines that did not have > virtual storage support, including System/360 machines. That's why they > enjoyed some popularity. NCSC produced a UNIX subsystem for EDOS called > PWS, inspired by Coherent UNIX. I'm not sure if NCSC ever made PWS > available for IBM DOS/VSE and its successors. > > 3. I don't think anybody mentioned IBM's OS/44 and PS/44 yet. Those were > operating systems for the System/360 Model 44, a scientific market machine. > > 4. I don't think anybody mentioned VM/IX and IX/370 yet, from Interactive > Systems Corporation (ISC). Those were different than AIX/370 and AIX/ESA, > based on Locus Computing's work. Bell Labs had a UNIX operating system for > System/370 even before ISC's products, but I don't know much about that. > MVS OpenEdition was the successor to these efforts, although with yet > another, different, much better technology base. MVS OpenEdition begat z/OS > UNIX System Services. > > 5. Boston University's VPS/VM traced its roots to McGill University's RACS > (later RAX, then MUSIC/SP) operating system. As far as I know VPS/VM always > ran under IBM's VM, but perhaps that wasn't required. VPS/VM and MUSIC/SP > are thus "cousins," one could argue. > > 6. TELPAR dates to the early 1970s, but I don't know much about it. I think > it's available in open source (PL/360) form, though. Has anybody tried > compiling and running it? > > 7. VP/CSS, developed by National CSS, was an evolution of CP/CMS. VP/CSS > had some efficiency advantages back in the 1970s. > > 8. Some people might classify Jan Jaeger's ZZSA as an operating system, a > very basic one. > > 9. Did the UCSD p-System ever end up on System/370 or System/390 machines? > It ended up on almost every other processor. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > 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 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
