On Thursday 20 August 2015 00:34:00 Bertram Moshier wrote:
> > Bertram,
> >
> > As others have pointed out, HI, TS and TE are perfectly valid immediate
> > Rexx commands on VM/CMS (now z/VM), and maybe even to TSO. The
> > implementation was modeled on the HX and HT immediate commands that
> > you're familiar with.
> >
> > As for VM/370, check out Hercules... I hear about it every once in a
>
> while.
>
> > Les
>
> Hello and thank you Les for your reply.
>
> Yup, I'm aware of Hercules, which is basically the hardware. As I
> understand it, a version of it is equal to a System/390, no less.
>
> Right now, legally, the only version a person can run is the public domain
> VM/370 R6 PLC 3 or similar. Yet, one could run VM/XA or VM/ESA on
> Hercules, if IBM would allow people.
>
> What I was saying is simply: It would be great for IBM to allow people to
> run VM/ESA or earlier at home using Hercules for non-commercial purposes.
>
> While VM/370 R6 is OK, it is missing a lot of great features (such a 32-bit
> and 64-bit addressing), as well as REXX!!!!!
>
> I can't see any downside for IBM in allowing people at home and for
> non-commercial purpose to run VM/ESA or earlier versions.
>
> Well, this is an ooRexx forum and not one on VM or System/3X0 hardware
> emulators.
>
> I just miss VM. I started at The Ohio University in 1977 and stopped using
> VM as an admin / systems programmer around 1992.
>
> Bertram Moshier
The comment about Hercules was not mine. I agree wholeheartedly with
your
wish to have VM/ESA available for non-commercial use with Hercules, but I'm
pretty sure that IBM will never do that. IMO VM and CMS are their best OSes,
but IBM insists that VM is only a hypervisor, not an OS, and discourages
their customers from using it any other way.
But this thread is about how to use ooRexx's HI, TS and TE immediate
commands.
Leslie
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A Caution to Everybody
Consider the Auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.
-- Ogden Nash
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