Not just z/OS, but z/VSE and z/VM as well! (z/TPF? Sure.) And I'd love to get a copy of BS2000/OSD and VM2000 to try to run under Hercules.
I have wondered in the past if Fujitsu and/or Hitachi would be willing to allow their versions of the operating systems out on a hobbyist license. I know there are beaucoup legal restrictions resulting out of the 1980's lawsuits, but now that those 31-bit operating systems are "obsolete" (note judicious use of quotes) in the true IBM iron world I wonder if things could be relaxed. I've still got my Great Software Idea T, but right now because of time and other reasons I'm working on prototyping using M$ Visual C++ Express (still free until November, folks!), even though I can see it running on all platforms, not just Intel/AMD and z/Architecture. (Anyone got a Bull with GCOS 8 lying around :-) ? ) Later, Ray -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday October 06 2006 02:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FW:A Letter To The FLEX-ES Community Stephen Y Odo wrote: [...] > Also, IBM excludes all those students who would want to write programs > on the mainframe or just learn how. They can get a Windows or Linux > laptop for about $1.5K with all the software they need. The only way > they can do anything with z/OS is to get an account on somebody's > mainframe ... which is nearly impossible at our institution. > > They can get a Linux box and start experimenting and learning without > having to write up a project proposal and getting approval to get > access to a system. ...or this persuades students to use Hercules and illegal copy of z/OS. Like some IBMers do. BTW: wouldn't it be simpler just to give z/OS *for free* to all the hobbyists, students, maniacs ? Like few other OS vendors did. Obviously with limitations for personal, non-commercial use, on specified HW, etc. Small developers would pay $xxxx yearly as today. OK, I know. I would make z/OS *popular* which seems to be against IBM policy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
