Shmuel Metz writes:
>I'm saying that IBM added FBA support to DOS way back in the 3310 and
>3370 days; they didn't add it to MVS. That meant that adding SCSI to
>VSE was a lot easier than adding it to MVS would be.

I don't follow the logic. The ease or difficulty of doing something is not
measured when something isn't done. For example, it's probably easy for
Apple to introduce iPhones in additional colors besides black and white,
but Apple has not done so. It's probably very hard for Apple to introduce a
fuel cell powered iPhone, and Apple has not done so. It really is easy for
me to get some exercise today, but I haven't done it yet.

All we can logically conclude was that it was "easy enough" for IBM to add
that support to DOS when it did. It might indeed have been more difficult
with MVS, but more information is required to know.

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Timothy Sipples
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