I think if you ask on the VM List that Alan or Bill (Bitner) will know. My hazy 
memory — I remember the announcement, but I can’t remember for sure if it was 
before or after 1996. 

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> On May 10, 2021, at 9:35 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Well,VM/XA MA, VM/XA SF, VM/XA/SP and VM/ESA all used subchannel numbers and 
> couldn't run in S/370 mode, but supported S/370 mode virtual machines. 
> Somewhere around VM/ESA IBM defined a subset of ESA for optional use by CMS 
> (or was it GCS?), and I believe that S/370 mode is now gone. What I'm looking 
> for is the timeline.
> 
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> I’m going to hazard a guess that it went away when base 370 I/O was dropped.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct 
> mistaks
> 
> 
>> On May 10, 2021, at 8:56 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> CMS originally ran on a real S/360 or on a S/60 virtual machine under 
>> CP-67.. The CMS for VM/370 through VM/SP ran on a virtual S/370. When did 
>> CMS stop requiring S/370 mode and when did it stop supporting S/370 mode (if 
>> it did)?
>> 
>> 
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