It has a robust POSIX feature set too. The only thing "wrong" is how fork() works, and there are substantial constructive reasons for that. It's up to us to use it or lose it.
To this day, CMS is the single most efficient runtime environment available. One can only hope that the newbes who bring up z/VM for the sake of hypervisor hosting of Linux (and maybe VSE or even z/OS) will discover "oh ... look at this!". -- R; <>< Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 15:51, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > (Retitled because the current discussion has nothing to do with VSWITCH > authorization...) > >> Does anyone run applications in z/VM? > > That's the saddest statement I've seen in a long while. > > That used to be true across the board. It's really sad that IBM continues > to constrain the ability to deploy applications in the CMS environment -- > it's a decent system for writing really good applications, but without the > tools and compilers....we're reduced to asking whether anyone can. > > -- db >
