On Thursday, 10/11/2007 at 04:44 EDT, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, so which is it? Is CMS capable of running multitasking programs, or not? > Way back when, GCS was introduced so that certain IBM products could run in a > multitasking environment, because that wasn't possible with CMS. (I believe it > was VTAM, but I'm not at all sure about that.) What has changed/what is > necessary for CMS to run native multitasking programs today? I'm not looking > for an in-depth tutorial here, but I do want to understand the current > capabilities and limitations of CMS so I don't go spreading misinformation. Yes, CMS can run multitaking applications, whether using native CMS services or POSIX APIs. GCS predates multitasking CMS and was created to provide an assembler-level equivalent of MVS/SP, with multitasking, event management, and shared memory sufficient to run VTAM. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
