Parwez Hamid wrote: >These systems will be sold and supported by Hitachi in Japan ONLY!
Yes, but there's a minor footnote. Probably something like 99% of VOS3 machines are physically in Japan. There might be a tiny percentage of VOS3 machines located outside Japan that Japanese VOS3 customers run in exceptional cases, i.e. to support an overseas subsidiary's operations. But in all these cases there is a larger "parent" VOS3 installation in Japan, to my knowledge. I think you're literally correct, Parwez, but a very small number of those VOS3 machines might then get shipped outside Japan, managed from Japan by Japanese VOS3 customers. I probably disagree with Binyamin about who implemented 31-bit support when. Wikipedia Japan says that VOS3/ES1, the first 31-bit version of VOS3, shipped in March, 1985. IBM's MVS/XA shipped at least as early as 1982. (It was announced in October, 1981.) I should mention that Hitachi and Fujitsu had, and have, some brilliant engineers. However, decades ago they often "borrowed" from their IBM peers, usually because management ordered them to. Those were some very interesting "borrowing" years back in the 1970s and 1980s, and I only got to read about them in the history books. But what a fascinating history, full of intrigue and plot twists. It'd probably make a great film, roughly a blend of "Hidden Figures" and "Ocean's Eleven." :-) Hitachi's VOS3 homepage, in Japanese, is available here: http://www.hitachi.co.jp/VOS3/ As a reminder, my views are my own. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
