The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[email protected] (Jim Marshall) writes: > I have been following some discussions on Adventure, StarTrek, and other > games around back in the 20th Century. If you look on the CBT tape you will > find a number of Computer games from back in the 1970s; WUMPUS, > RoadRace, Eliza, Lunar Lander, etc. Thought it was about time to clue folks > in > on some events. Back in the 1970s the Air Force assigned me to the Pentagon > to work on an IBM 360-75J & OS/MVT/HASPIII. Along the way we were > blessed with the first IBM 303X shipped; namely a 3032 serial number 6. Along > with it came all the DASD and tape plus an IBM 3850 MSS (35GB) with a bunch > of Virtual IBM 3330 (100MB) drives. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#27 SHAREWARE at Its Finest http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#30 SHAREWARE at Its Finest old email about AFDS looking at getting a couple hundred vm/4341s (each about thruput of 360/75). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404 in this post: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#15 departmental servers other old email mentioning vm/43xx machines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx I had sponsored Col. Boyd's briefings at IBM ... misc. past posts mentioning Boyd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html he had references to doing stint in 1970 running spook base. One of his biographices make reference to his stint at spook base ... with comment that it was a $2.5B "windfall" for IBM. recent post reference the disk division had datacenter in bldg.26 running numerous MVS machines ... however, it ran out of space for all the computing demand for all the tools. vm/4341s were starting to go into every nook&cranny ... w/o needing all the datacenter infrastructure required by the big iron. they started looking at doing something similar with mvs on 4341 ... however, one of the issues when looking at capacity planning was the low "capture ratio" that really messed up their numbers (MVS and VTAM pathlength by itself would nearly consume the 4341). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#66 LPARs: More or Less? Part of the problem was that the applications were using some MVS system services not supported by CMS (CMS having about 64kbytes of o/s simulation code). However, Los Gatos lab found that with about another 12kbytes of o/s simulation glue code ... these large applications moved over. -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
