On 5/12/05, Wesley Parish wrote: > IBM refers to all S360, S370, S390 and z900 series computers and their > compatibles/clones as mainframes. The OSes they run are variants of either > OS390 aka MVS (for Multiple Variable Storage - meaning it's named for its > virtual memory capabilties, which were very, very new at the time it came > out) aka zOS or VM/ESA aka z/VM (for Virtual Machine/Extended System > Architecture).
OS390 - sounds familiar - where have I seen it before? Oh yes, I use it nearly every day. When I log into the 3270 emulator at work the splash screen that comes up before starting the customised app says something about OS390. Or is it OS/390? Something like that. Speaking of 3270 - it's the only app that never crashes. Another interesting thing is that some of my cow-orkers refer to it as "that DOS app" because to them, any text based interface is "DOS". Yuri -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
