Mickey wrote:
My opinion of VM has been essentially the same as yours. For lack of a
better term, I have always thought of both VM and Rexx as being
elegant.
part of the issue was that CMS (under cp67 and then vm370) was mainstay
personal computer offering of the late 60s and through-out the 70s. lots
of stuff we see today was originally developed in that environment ...
including Rexx. GML (percursor to sgml, html, xml, etc)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#sgml
was also invented at the science center
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
it was major time-sharing, "personal computing", online interactive
offering platform ... both by commercial companies like idc, ncss,
tymshare, etc
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#timeshare
as well as the internal HONE system which provided interactive, personal
computing support for all field, sales, and marketing world wide.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
that role was taken over in the 80s with the appearance of individual
computers for personal computing.
a few recent postings touching on various aspectst:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#6 Not Your Dad's Mainframe:
Little Iron
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#8 Not Your Dad's Mainframe:
Little Iron
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#10 Not Your Dad's Mainframe:
Little Iron
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#13 Not Your Dad's Mainframe:
Little Iron
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#29 CRAM, DataCell, and 3850
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#44 Any resources on VLIW?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#45 sorting
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#52 the more things change, the
more things stay the same
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#2 the more things change, the
more things stay the same
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#19 Source maintenance was Re:
SEQUENCE NUMBERS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#21 Source maintenance was Re:
SEQUENCE NUMBERS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#27 oops
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#38 hardware virtualization slower
than software?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#44 When Does Folklore Begin??
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#45 "25th Anniversary of the
Personal Computer"
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