Yeah, it was a gutted OS/360 MFT system. MVS/XA was not even a gleam in its daddy's eye.
Those first days of either a DOS or a VS1 system to run VTAM were the pits. I remember the announcement of VM/VTAM at Guide (my employer at the time viewed SHARE as a bunch of Hippies getting together to have a party, while Guide was for serious business people). That announcement was greeted with all the enthusiasm it deserved. People were either silent or they booed and hissed. And the presenters seemed shocked. Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: VTAM R.I.P. > > On Wednesday, 04/02/2008 at 09:30 EDT, Jim Bohnsack > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > .... R4 was the release > > with "native" VTAM support. VTAM had been supported for a > while with > > VS/1 or DOS/VS hosting VTAM but someone decided that GCS > was the way > > to go. They took a gutted MVS/XA and quickly fitted it into VM. > > Nonsense. There is no more MVS/XA code in GCS than there is in CMS. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott >
