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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of William Donzelli
>
> > 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.
Or not. How long has it been since MVS/XA went to the museum? Or CICS/OS/VS?
Or ??????
To be "above board", I doubt you'd be able to run anything as a "new
installation" on the MP3000 that you can't run on Hercules "legally".
> 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.
Like many large bureaucracies, IBM probably has a cadre of "attic minders"
whose sole occupation is to ensure that nobody retrieves anything without first
presenting "proper credentials".
-jc-
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