None of those hold a candle to the shortly lived, thank God, VM/IS. What an ill conceived, poorly implemented, piece-o-doodoo that was.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VM/SP1 may have it beat. I remember the Vulture with the inscription > "VM/SP is waiting for you" that Jim Bergsten created for it. We actually > did not have much trouble with HPO4 at Piedmont Airlines. Compared to > today's systems, it did have some stability issues; however, it was > nowhere near as bad as SP1 or, for that matter, the earlier releases of > VM. I remember some of the nightmares of the VM/370 Release 2 days. > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack > > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:13 AM > > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > > Subject: Re: VTAM R.I.P. > > > > I was basing that on what an MVS sysprog told me. I will > > stand by my stmt, tho, that HPO 4 was the most unstable > > operating system release I've seen in 41+ years of working in > > this racket. Also that it was one of the shortest lived releases. > > Jim > > > > Alan Altmark wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 04/02/2008 at 09:30 EDT, Jim Bohnsack > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> .... R4 was the release > > >> with "native" VTAM support. VTAM had been supported for a > > while with > > >> VS/1 or DOS/VS hosting VTAM but someone decided that GCS > > was the way > > >> to go. They took a gutted MVS/XA and quickly fitted it into VM. > > >> > > > > > > Nonsense. There is no more MVS/XA code in GCS than there is in CMS. > > > > > > Alan Altmark > > > z/VM Development > > > IBM Endicott > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Jim Bohnsack > > Cornell University > > (607) 255-1760 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems
