In <22812F8E8B2542AC95AEDBCD8E53A58B@asus>, on 10/17/2012
at 09:46 PM, T Gold <[email protected]> said:
>I came here to find anyone in public or private that wants to talk
>about pars, ipars, tpf and or apc or all of the above.
You already got an explanation of LPAR and TPF. Note that Airline
Control Program (ACP) is the OS for TPF. This is an appropriate venue
to discuss the IBM software, but probably not airline and bank
software running under TPF or the specifics of a customer-vendor
dispute.
>In short it mostly seems to "be IBM". Recent statements by the
>major GDSs are that their problems are "IBM's fault".
They might be telling the truth, but they have an incentive to make
the claim even if it's false.
>I've love to see IBM follow that up with a statement in the manner
>of "Stop using our code or be subject to legal penalties".
I doubt that there's a contractual basis for yanking the license. Even
if IBM sued for libel and prevailed, I'm confident that they'd have to
continue licensing z/TPF on the same terms as for other customers.
>Is Pars or Ipars an actual operating system?
PARS is an application running under ACP. An LPAR is a virtual machine
managed by the PR/SM feature of an IBM processor, which started as the
CP component of VM.
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Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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