Unfortunately, if you find the old CMS JAVA, I'm sure it will NOT use IEE E floating point. A decent CMS Java Virtual Machine with a JIT would perhaps run very well. But who is going to write it? It's not going to come from Sun/Oracle. Sun doesn't even provide one for the M acintosh -- Apple does. There are a heck of a lot more Macs than copies of CMS.
I don't know whether CMS JAVA truly supported multi-threading, though, wh ile Java does. Could lead to problems porting Java to CMS. Does anyone know? I gather that with NetRexx, Mike Cowlishaw tried to fix the mistakes in R EXX. At least he replaced do/end with loop/end. (For the looping cases of 'do'.) In other ways he s ignificantly enhanced REXX. I don't think NetRexx is upwardly compatible with REXX, though. I suspect there are far more programmers literate in Java than in REXX. P erhaps not among mainframers, though. Does anyone know how much NetRexx is used in z/OS? My employer's standard language is Java. Another strike against CMS. Alan Ackerman On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:38:35 -0700, Barton Robinson <bar...@vm1.velocity- Software.com> wrote: >Right, so even better chance that java on cms would be more than >acceptable. Too bad there's no business case. > >John P. Hartmann wrote: >> Barton, you overlook the lack of IEEE floating point in the hardware >> in those days. >> >> On 28 September 2010 04:08, Barton Robinson >> <bar...@vm1.velocity-software.com> wrote: >> >> >======================== ========================= ========== ==============
