In <[email protected]>, on 12/20/2015
at 02:57 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said:
>No (about the "free", not about the "dead for decades"), DOS/VS was
>the last really free base (last version Release 34?). Perhaps
>technically DOS/VSE was "free", as there didn't appear to be a
>monthly licensing charge for DOS/VSE itself (Computerworld, April 30,
>1979, p4), but in the practical sense a production DOS/VSE system was
>definitely not free as there were monthly support charges for
>DOS/VSE
Are you sure that you're thinking of DOS/VSE itself and not addons
like VSE/AF?
>plus support charges for must-have VSE add-on components like
>VSE/Power and others.
The same could be said of DOS/VS or even of DOS/360. Those addons were
optional.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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