[email protected] (Steve Thompson) writes: > I have been using google, and other search lists. The amount of false > positive hits is astounding. > > What I am looking for is an equivalent to IBM Main for VM/CMS. > > The only link I found to such was for an entity in North Carolina that now > gives a 404.
both ibm-main and ibmvm (as well as numerous others) originated on university, ibm-sponsored (vm-based) network in the 80s. It used technology that was similar to that developed for the internal, vm-based network (which was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime late '85 or early '86). some past posts mentioning internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet some past posts mentioning ibm-sponsored univ. "bitnet" (and "earn" in europe) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet in the early 90s the bitnet groups moved to internet mailing lists .... and periodically over the years various bitnet mailing lists have been gatewayed to usenet ... which now also runs over the internet. usenet is in turned gatewayed to google. at the moment, ibm-main is gatewayed to usenet (and therefor also google, however outgoing only, posts made to usenet bit.listserv.ibm-main don't go in reverse and showup on the ibm-main mailing list) and ibmvm isn't gatewayed to usenet. Note at various times in the past various gateways have handled two-way operation between usenet and listserv mailing lists. ibmvm mailing list currently handled by [email protected] current listserv originated in Paris in the mid-80s on EARN (bitnet's cousin in europe) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV support for other platforms have been added since the original VM implementation ... from listserv wiki: Listserv is currently available for and supported on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, HP-UX, Tru64, z/VM, and Microsoft Windows (XP, 2000, 2003, Vista, 2008, and 7) ... snip ... originally listserv was a subset of a similar internal application called TOOLSRUN (which provided both mailing list type option as well as a usenet type option). I had been blamed for computing conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s ... and was doing a semi-automated process. folklore is when the corporate executive committee was told about computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5-of-6 wanted to fire me. What followed was a lot of internal task force investigations followed by the sponsorship of official sanctioned discussions (and automated TOOLSRUN that provided automated usenet-like & mailing list function) old email from person setting up EARN ... looking for network oriented applications: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
