[email protected] (Ed Jaffe) writes: > IIRC, "OpenEdition MVS" (aka OMVS) was introduced with MVS/ESA 4.3 ca. 1993.
I've periodic told the tale in late 80s, about senior disk enginneer getting talk scheduled at the annual, world-wide, internal communication group conference ... supposedly on topic of 3174 performance, but open the talk with statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for demise. of the disk division. The communication group had stranglehold on the datacenter with corporate strategic responsibility for everything that cross the datacenter walls ... and were violently fighting off distributed computing and client/server trying to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm. The disk division was starting to see data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with a number of solutions to correct the situation ... but they were constantly being vetoed by the disk division. some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal his boss (disk division executive in charge of software) then started trying a number of ways to bypass the communication group ... he started investing in startups that would produce distributed computing products for the mainframe ... and also was responsible for project that got unix subsystem operation shipped in mvs. we had worked with him several times in the past ... and he would periodically ask us in to give a hand on some of the efforts. one of the startups he invested in was spinnoff from NCAR that in mid-80s, had done a distributed filesystem for supercomputers using hyperchannel, mainframe disks and mainframe acting as sort of NAS/SAN controller ... and we were asked to monitor their progress and lend a hand where we could. some semi-related past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt i had become something of corporate hyperchannel resource ... having done channel-extender support using hyperchannel in 1980 for STL and the IMS group. -- 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
