> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Doug Fuerst
>
> I fail to understand why anyone would find this "stunning."
> You really didn't think IBM gave away every trade secret did
> you? When I was at Intel they weren't giving out the chip
> masks for the processors or their memory chips either. IBM
> also kept the existence of the diagnose instruction hidden
> in obscure places for many years before innocently admitting
> that it existed and was pretty powerful.
>
> Doug
>
> snip>>>>>>>>>>
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Payne) writes:
> > > Has anyone from the Hercules team read IBM's rather
> stunning admission
> > > (on the above page - paragraph 176) that there is a "confidential
> > > version" of the PoP? Their words, not mine.
> >
> >there has been the (confidential) architecture redbook
> (distributed in
> >red 3ring binders) ... implemented in (cp67/)CMS script file ... with
> >conditional formating to produce either the "princples of operation"
> >subset ... or the full (confidential) architecture redbook.
> >snip>>>>>>>>>>>>>
IBM has been the "benevolent dictator" in the mainframe market since Dr.
Amdahl left. It appears now that IBM, via this litigation, is seeking
to prove the adage, "Even the most benevolent dictator is still a
dictator."
-jc-
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