Nigel Hadfield wrote:
And a wonderful company called Enterprise Computer Services made a very good living for a number of years upgrading, downgrading, and crossgrading 3090s, by doing just that with IBM's engines. Made much easier once a good late friend and colleague had essentially hacked the VM system that was the 3090 console.
i.e. "3090" service processor was a modified version of vm370 release 6 running on a pair of 4361 processors, most of the screens/menus written in IOS3270. Part of this was the result of the experience with the 3081 service processor where all of the software was totally written from scratch (trying to get to some amount of off-the-shelf stuff). minor folklore ... my dumprx was selected for use as diagnostic support for the 3090 service processor ... in the early 80s, i had (re-)implemented large superset of IPCS function totally in rexx http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#dumprx ... topic drift, a couple recent postings mentioning vm370 release 6 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#2 Mount a tape http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#24 CMSBACK http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#25 To RISC or not to RISC ... for other drift ... this is crudely HTML'ed version of GCARD IOS3270 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
