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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Bernd Oppolzer
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 6:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: how many OSes run on IBMz

what a strange typo ...

"- if it really would run on a current z Hardware"

of course


Am 24.01.2019 um 13:52 schrieb Bernd Oppolzer:
> Am 24.01.2019 um 13:25 schrieb R.S.:
>> W dniu 2019-01-24 o 13:17, John McKown pisze:
>>> This is mainly a curiosity question. I know of: z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF,
>>> and z/Linux. Are there any others?
>>>
>>> OK, the real reason I'm asking is to be a bit weird in a game that I
>>> play.
>>> It is "No Man's Sky",which is a space exploration game. When you
>>> discover a new star system or planet, you can rename it. So I plan
>>> to find a star with "n" planets, where "n" is the number of OSes
>>> which run on the IBMz platform. I will name the star IBMz, and the
>>> planets after the OSes. If there are any moons around a planet, I
>>> will try to name them after some major subsystem which runs on the
>>> OS with that name, such as JES2 or POWER or RSCS.
>>>
>>
>>
>> It depends.
>> There were historical OSes like Amdahl UTS or AIX/ESA.
>> There is "something" like CFCC (Coupling Facility Control Code).
>> There is z/VM which is hypervisor or just OS.
>> Sometimes TPF was not counted as OS even by IBM.
>> There is/was OpenSolaris ported on mainframe, but AFAIK only under z/VM.
>> There is CMS (part of z/VM), which currently can ruch only under
>> z/VM, but AFAIK in the past it could run on bare metal as well.
>> There are many zLinux distros like Debian, Fedora, SUSE, Redhat,
>> Slackware, Ubuntu...
>>
>>
>
> MUSIC/SP, but I don't know
>
> - if there is a version of MUSIC/SP still running anywhere in the
> "real world"
> and not only with emulators in hobbyists' environments
>
> - if it really would round on a current z Hardware
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bernd
>
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