On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:56:08PM -0600, Ward, Garry wrote:
> Not to mention, every time I've seen or used CMS, it has been under VM,
> not in an LPAR by itself. I don't think CMS can run native in an LPAR.

Hasn't been able to since CMS v3.  Head over to alt.folklore.computers
and ask Lynn Wheeler about it.  Basically, CMS uses a VM DIAGNOSE to do
its I/O, rather than talking to the metal (or, at least, the emulated
metal provides a function the physical metal doesn't).

Although it *might* be able to under Hercules.  I remember way back in
the 1.54 days or so that some of the DIAGNOSE instructions were being
put into the instruction set so that CMS could run "native" on Herc.  I
don't know if that was ever completed though.

Adam

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