Hello from Gregg C Levine I agree. I've been wanting to try out that product, on what Jay supports, for the longest time. David, can you remember what year this was? Oh, and I've met a few of those typewriter based terminals. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jay Maynard > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Native Linux > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:21:46PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > Now you are talking. My earliest experience of IBM was on a 360/67 at > > Durham University (it was shared with Newcastle) and they ran MTS (Michigan > > Terminal System). Most of the terminals were golfball typewriters, > > although there were a few 2260s around. The machine had 2MB RAM and an > > 11MB fixed head drum, and you could really feel when the total virtual > > memory requirement went over 13M as it moved its paging out to 3330, then > > to 2314, then in deparation to tape, and on one wonderful occasion to > > punched card (it used 64 columns for data and 16 as a pattern which it > > displayed on the console when it asked for the right cards back). > > PUNCHED CARDS??!! > > Merciful $DEITY. > > BTW, anyone have any inside contacts at the University of Michigan that > could possibly get MTS released into the world of open source? There's been > some interest in running it under Hercules, but nobody can find out who owns > the rights or who to contact to get it released.
