Timothy Sipples wrote:
Ray Mullins writes:
Random thought - I wonder what would happen if Fujitsu and Hitachi decided
to release their clones of MVS and VSE to hobbyists. Yeah, yeah, there's
legal agreements, etc., which probably preclude that.
It's an interesting hypothetical to ponder for a little while. But I'll
ask a question that'll give you a hint what I think the impact would be.
Have these companies shipped any substantial innovations or improvements in
their operating systems in, say, the past decade?
The simple answer to your explicit question: no.
But in the MVS-ish world they can deliver almost everything except 64
bit and some sort of OpenMVS functionality (not getting in the
you-ess-ess fun). Data spaces, access registers, TCP/IP stack +
utilities, a lot of stuff that isn't there in MVS 3.8j. And for BTI
(let's drop the slash) types such as myself, that's sufficient.
Later,
Ray
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