(BTW, system clock at prino.org seems 4 hours fast: ... X-Atlas-Received: from 10.224.10.154 by atlas212.aol.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with http; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:40:27 +0000 ... Message-ID: <518d0e42-90d0-029a-0012-2170fd1f6...@prino.org> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:40:08 +0000 ... ) On 2020-04-10, at 13:40:08, Robert Prins wrote: > > On 2020-04-09 18:04, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >>>> >> What do others know about Fan Dezhi, aka tn3270://efglobe.com? >> o Is it safe? > > Define "safe" > Doesn't install malware. Doesn't trigger DMCA, etc. enforcement.
>> o Prohibits use for: >> - Training > > To prevent sh*tloads of clueless Indians screwing up. > >> - any sort of "Hello world" program > > About the dumbest program ever. > Gotta start small. >> - What does that leave? > > PL/I, Cobol, keeping your skill (marginally) up-to-date, in case you want to > go to New Jersey? > >> - Is OMVS available? > > Also dead. > "dead" as functionally stabilized, or as unavailable. I thought TCP/IP nowadays practically requires OMVS. I wonder what Rexx ADDRESS SYSCALL ... does? >> o One of the named principals appears to be a regular contributor to >> IBM-MAIN. > > Who? Me? Only admin on the forum, and that just means kicking off the > spammers, and blocking large parts of the Internet from even accessing it. I > rarely log on to the system nowadays, given that I now have legal access to > an completely up-to-date system. >> o Who pays for it? > efglobe, whoever they are. > "whoever" exactly. Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN