> We've just been honoring the 3390 all these years by trying to do things > they would have done them. Had FBA been more popular at the time of the > real 3390's, we might be seeing 3350 mod 81's instead.
Had MVS been able to cope with FBA, rather. FBA was plenty popular with the non-MVS crowd. Also, wasn't 3350 CKD? 3370 was FBA, but I thought there was one earlier that was at least pseudo-FBA.