Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote:
It's been done many times before, FREEWARE for STRICTLY PERSONAL USE. It
is proven to sell more licences for commercial use. There is precedence, DB2,
Lotus...
personal computing ... freeware or not ... has always shown to contribute
significantly
to useage increase. CMS was the personal computing of 60s and 70s (first as
cambridge monitor system on cp67 and then renamed to conversational monitor
system as part of the morph to vm370) ... and SHARE case studies in the 70s
showed
that vm370/cms environments had largest usage growth (this was part of the
many countermeasures to the perodic corporate statements that vm370 product
was being eliminated).
misc. past posts mentioning cambridge science center ... originated
cp40 and cp67 virtual machine systems (along with cms)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
where gml was invented (precursor to sgml, html, xml, etc)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#sgml
where compare&swap multiprocessor instruction was invented
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
and where the technology for the internal network originated
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
which was also the basis for bitnet (and european earn):
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
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