On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:36:32 -0400, Mark Pace wrote: >Oh the great failed examples of VM/IS 4 & 5, took IBM 2 releases to figure >this was a disaster. Also SSX/VSE. All thought they could have an >administrator install and maintain the system. I can't recall the number >of times I was on the CritSit Desk for VM/IS 4. > And a product called something like "Instant UNIX", an OS/390 (or about that era) stripped to nothing but OpenEdition: no batch, no TSO. I thought it was supposed to be serviced by SMP/E, but I never knew how that was supposed to work without batch.
IBM quickly realized that Linux on the mainframe more closely matched customer requirements, and provided higher performance and greater portability across IBM's hardware product lines. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
