> But, what good are they? If you are a hobbiest, to legally run z/OS you > would have to pay several thousand dollars a month to IBM. It would be very > hard to even get IBM to lease the software, as the last release of z/OS that > will run on a MP3000 is z/OS V1.5.
All the more reason to hold on to older distributions of OSes and applications. At some point in the future, IBM will pretty much not care, or maybe even follow the likes of other vendors (HP/DEC/Apollo etc.) and release the goods for free non-commercial use. 20 years from now, when today's mainframes are working in a purely historic context, will be like today's S/3s running unlicensed CCP - IBM will care more about the trailing end of a Rattus Rattus. -- Will ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
