> > > Actually, a CMS shell that ran under Linux would > be pretty neat. > > Now there is a project for someone who wants to > learn C#... just let > me finish re-installing my iBook, getting Bacula to > work, fixing the > server that I messed up the other week, trying to > get MS Windows to > boot under Xen... shame the boss wouldn't sponsor me > to do this... > ah well... >
I guess in some ways we have turned the world upside down. When IBM "owned" the PC platform it made products like the XT/370 and AT/370 that allowed you to run "real" CMS, not just a CMS shell on a PC That included REXX and XEDIT but not sure if PIPES would have run. Then we had the P/370 and P/390 cards that allowed you to run a whole OS on a PC. Now IBM is supressing Mainframe code on the PC and getting us to run LINUX images on VM and wants us to do our personal computing Linux on VM, and stops licensing for any 370 the PC platform. On the other hand what goes round comes round, and if you think of Linux as the main OS its licensing is "similar" to the orignal VM/370. I know there is no commercial value in it, so it won't happen, but wouldn't it be nice if IBM realeased a software emulation that worked like the original XT/370 that emulated both the Hardware and CP calls and so would allow CMS itself to be run native on Linux or Windows... .. oh and of course would license CMS for such an environment.. In fact I think this is what Roger Bowler originally intended for Hercules... > -- > Rod (who heartily seconds what Mike Walter said) > Dave Wade __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
