> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 9:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last > VSE program product Supervisor? > > 40 or so years ago, IBM certified OS/MVT as functionally > complete (or stable?) and stopped enhancing it. Source code > was still available back then. A subset of IBM's mainframe > customers kept using the last release of MVT for many years, > as their management was not prepared to incur the expense of > upgrading both processors and operating system in order to > stay current with IBM's moving window of currency. > Continuing to use the old, no longer officially maintained > operating system was called "paddling your own canoe". At > SHARE meetings, the principal spokesman for this concept was > Dr. Robert Rannie, who would carry a large wooden canoe > paddle on his shoulder throughout the SHARE week. Google for > "share os/mvt project ibm "wooden paddle"" and read the first > four hits. A copy of that version of MVT is still available > and still works on certain computers.
And MS-Windows only runs on _uncertain_ computers. So called due to their uncertainity of continuing to run without a BSOD. > > Bill Fairchild -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
