That's why I would have expected them to die in lockstep.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tony Harminc [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 6:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ignorant z/OS question On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 17:25, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would have expected 1052-7, 3210 and 3215 support to die at the same time. Is there any reason to think that there is/was separate code for these three devices? IIRC their programming specs are identical, or very close to identical. Obviously the hardware is quite different (Selectric printer, dot-matrix), but the software generally doesn't care about that kind of thing. Tony H. > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Allan Staller <[email protected]> [...] > ISTR the some of the older "console" support was removed in the indicated > timeframe. E.g. 1052.... > I cannot say for certain that the 3215 code was removed at that time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
