not interested in a Windows box,
but if it ran Linux, I'd buy one just to run Hercules on for the cool
factor.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules
resume.)
I believe that Jack Woehr also wrote a forth interpreter for VM/CMS
sometime ago.
Dunno if it's his or not, but I've got a Forth for CMS tucked away
somewhere.
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http
to maintain.
My roommate's reply: If you write it [Forth] to be maintainable, it'll be
maintainable. If you write it to look like Perl, you'll get an
unmaintainable mess. It's an amplifier: it amplifies mistakes really, really
well.
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http
must do before his life is done,
Write two lines in APL and make the buggers run.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, _The Devil's DP Dictionary_
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org
work on Hercules.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390
What's new in release 3.05
Release date: 23 June 2007
* Prebuilt Cygwin binary no longer supplied; building Cygwin version
from source still supported (Jay Maynard)
* New system features: Compare-and-Swap-and-Store, Conditional SSKE,
Decimal Floating Point, Floating
are there...lest an observer think the rama llama ding
dong is sitting in front of the keyboard.
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http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff
from which to read mail.
It's true, he's got his own Apple.
Yeah, but I bet he's never used it as an MVS system console.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes
just 15 minutes...
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http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:21:00PM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote:
On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Jay Maynard wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:03:05PM -0500, David Boyes wrote:
I've always tried to maintain low visibility in life. That will be
harder now, for a time - but That's perhaps good.
Do
tape drive. It'll appear as /dev/st0 and friends. You
will need to make sure that your SCSI interface card has a driver for it in
Linux, but unless you're using something really strange, that isn't likely
to be a problem.
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http
to get a Mac. Parallels Desktop is a great way to run
Windows or Linux on it, in an OS X window.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff
KRONOS.
And, for those who remember the Cyber with fondness, I have one word (sort
of): DtCyber.
I have a very patient wife. Thanks, love. 8-)
Given her choice of field of study, this surprises you how?
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http
).
OTOH, David Boyes's comments on the MP3000's power supply are certainly
giving me pause...especially since the last failure I had on the Alphaserver
was a power supply.
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the manufacturer.
Finally, there's another consideration for the Hercules site, in particular,
that doesn't apply much to other folks: it's called eating your own dog
food. I think it'd be really good if I could say this site hosted on
Hercules on hercules-390.org. That's a nice to have, though.
--
Jay Maynard
.
I'll agree that it's trivial, but there's no reason to make it easy for the
script kiddies. The portion of machines on the net that are x86-compatible
is high enough that, by avoiding it, mine is immediately less of a target,
and by enough to make the exercise worthwhile.
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with a hack and off you go.
That's what I had in mind if I went with a Hercules-based solution, though
Xen would be good too.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's
brain.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390
installed from binaries!
Indeed. OTOH, some things are best custom installed...why, for example, does
SLES 10 install audio software and the gpm console mouse driver on
z/Series?!
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nonessential component stripped out. (Slackware need not apply.)
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules
get me some speed under Hercules,
even on an Opteron host. I had thought that the development effort had
gotten away from the 31-bit versions (which is why I've got some
reservations about getting a Multiprise).
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http
of anyone who recommends ReiserFS for general production use on
any platform.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com
.
Indeed. Simply run multiple copies of Hercules. This only works, of course,
as long as you're not doing things that depend on z/VM...
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes
whether you can do that on Hercules. AFAIK, nobody
has ever gotten a refusal to license on Hercules at any price from IBM in
writing. If such a document exists, I'd appreciate seeing it; until I do,
there's been enough FUD thrown around from one particular party that I'm
disinclined to believe it.
--
Jay
would outperform Flex-ES built for x86 for the same
64-bit workload, but I am not in a position to do more than guess at that.
A nice fast 8-way Opteron would probably outrun the average PartnerWorld
Flex-ES box, but that's hardly an apples-to-apples comparison. :-)
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just great: Parallels Desktop. $49. Runs
everything I've tried, and you don't have to reboot to get into or out of OS
X. Strongly recommended.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org
is looking for to validate that it's running on a Mac.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390
before, use Parallels Desktop and get all that without
having to dual-boot. I've got WinXP, SuSE 10, RHEL 4, and RHEL 3 virtual
machines on my MacBook Pro. Works great, and no rebooting required.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http
a log replay.
I'll echo the comments of everyone else: Backing up a live filesystem from
outside Linux is playing with fire. YOu might get away with it, but you
*will* eventually get burned.
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instruction and getting a bit on the side.
Someone needs to submit *this* to the guy who writes Everybody Loves
Eric Raymond.
There's a wiki, and he gets ideas from it.
http://johnleach.co.uk/wiki/EverybodyLovesEricRaymond
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http
-O-Rama-Rama, selling bells,
snacks and llama rides. I'll call it: Rama-Llama-Ding-Dong. It had to be
said.
Geez. I'm *already* a Make author. I didn't realize that I would
have had support had I wished to go and do a Dog-Cart-Building-
Booth. *sigh*
Don't you ever talk to your boss?
--
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is more likely, given the measures Apple is
likely to take to restrict OS X to running on their hardware), I'm going to
make the switch from the PPC Macs I'm using now. Who needs Virtual PC?
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http
? *cough* *cough*
Go have another hot toddy. A few more of those and you won't care whether
you're coughing.
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy
clean off his screen), I think this guy's a bit over the top. In particular,
I do not agree at all that LKMs almost certainly violate the GPL,
considering that Linus has said they do not. If they don't, his whole
argument goes down the tubes.
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:56:52PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 10:30 -0600, Jay Maynard wrote:
I do not agree at all that LKMs almost certainly violate the GPL,
considering that Linus has said they do not.
Linus is only one copyright holder and he's hardly said they do
*this close* to snorting my coffee.
Glad to hear I brightened your day... :-)
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http://jmaynard.livejournal.com (Yes, that's me
mainframe emulator in the world - I'd like to extend my thanks,
and my hope that Hercules will continue to serve your needs in 2006 and
beyond.
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http://www.hercules-390.org http://www.tronguy.net
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com (Yes
/hercules.mk
http://www.casita.net/pub/cscratch/arc/hercules/hercules-3.03.mak
Have not tested the new features, but it builds both ways.
How was it broken before? I'll try to keep from breaking it that way again.
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http://www.conmicro.cx
http://www.tronguy.net (Yes, that's me
things like /usr/lib being _libdir .
Oops. Sorry about that. Can it be made portable? I don't have an RPM-based
OS on my Opteron, and it builds fine on an Alpha...
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http://www.conmicro.cx
http://www.tronguy.net (Yes, that's me!)
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com
console support (Jan Jaeger)
tapecopy support for writing as well as reading tapes (Jay Maynard)
While the Cygwin version is still available, it should be noted that there
is a known problem with the built-in HTTP server in that version only. This
problem does not affect the versions built
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:21:54PM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote:
The long-awaited Hercules version 3.03 is now available for download.
Boy, that was stupid. In all of that, I forgot to say where to find it.
With the release of version 3.03, the Hercules site has moved to its own
domain: http
was able to get SLES 9 RC5 installed via a CTC connection (after
working around an installer bug that treats FTP paths as relative, even if a
leading / is specified).
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http://www.tronguy.net (Yes, that's me!)
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com
with these 4.2-level (update2) image for both - s390 and
s390x under hercules.
Of course, when I tried to recreate the problem, it started working. Bleh.
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http://www.conmicro.cx
http://www.tronguy.net (Yes, that's me!)
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:18:43AM +, Richard Hirst wrote:
Loadable module default base directory is
/var/tmp/hercules-3.02-root/usr/lib/hercules
Note it appears to be looking in the rpm temp build directory for
modules and documents. I had to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/hercules
improvements (Jan Jaeger, Greg Smith)
SIE performance almost the same as native (Jan Jaeger)
SCSI tape support in Windows (David Fish Trout)
Mac OS X CTC networking support (Jay Maynard)
Suspend/resume facility (Greg Smith)
ASN-and-LX-Reuse Facility (Roger
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:20:59AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
Note that all the software products that I know of that use open source
other than GPL have not lasted.
Apache? XFree86? Sendmail? BIND? Hercules?
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:33:41AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
Adam Thornton:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:20:59AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
Note that all the software products that I know of that use open
source other than GPL have not lasted.
So, you've never heard of X ? The
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:46PM -0500, David Andrews wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 13:33, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
products derived from [BSD licensed programs] have not lasted.
Hmmm. I've always understood that the MS-Windows TCPIP implementation
is based on Berkeley TCPIP.
It is, AFAIK.
(Please, please don't top-post. Fixing it is a pain in the rear.)
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:52:24AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
I think Apple stated that they went with FreeBSD because they don't like
the GPL. The reason that they are contributing back to FreeBSD is because
they were not
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:08:56PM -0500, David Andrews wrote:
The OS X kernel is Darwin, itself based on the Mach microkernel.
Supposedly there is a good deal of higher-level BSD code in there, and
it wouldn't surprise me much to find out that FreeBSD was the source.
But it is nevertheless
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:00:33PM -0500, David Andrews wrote:
No, it's not. *BSD on the PowerPC has always been Mach-based
AFAIK there is no released PPC port of FreeBSD, and a search of the
FreeBSD website for microkernel returns pitifully little information.
Which specific *BSDs are you
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:51:57PM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote:
It's a really nice explanation of how Open Source licenses, particularly the
GPL work
Overall, this is true - yet it perpetuates the myth that only the GPL
protects software. This, as we have been discussing on this very list over
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:06:10AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
Jay, you didn't say why you think that RMS is not for freedom for
programmers. Am I correct in assuming that you think programmers want to
keep their source code secret?
No.
RMS is for freedom for programmers only if they
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:33:45AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
You are incorrect. Under the GPL you can sell your software, but you must
provide the source code to anyone that buys the software, and request the
source. You don't even have to provide the source code until they ask for
it.
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:47:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:52:46PM -0500, David Andrews wrote:
Jay is right insofar that -- practically speaking -- you can only sell
your code for more than your distribution cost one time. Eventually
somebody like
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:51:54PM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote:
Hence what we're seeing now with SUSE and Red Hat not selling their products
unless a maintenance and/or support contract is purchased.
However, they cannot prohibit someone who receives a copy of their systems
from distributing it,
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:29:19PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote:
I agree. Where woudl be all the software without GPL?
Let us picture this:
If as a developer I want to develop a software that I think will be of
wide-spread use and provide me a livelihood, I could pitch it on
sourceforge.net
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:48:24PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote:
Wrong. GPL protects the developers more than open source.
Open Source allows commercial exploitation by allowing it to co-exist with
proprietary and closed software.
This is too broad a brush. Not all non-GNU-free licenses allow
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:40:53PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote:
Free as in 'Freedom' or 'Free beer'. The former is more important for me!
Careful about raising this argument...it marks you as a Stallmanite, and
there are lots of us who think he's an unmitigated kook. In particular,
Stallamn
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:54:12PM -0500, David Boyes wrote:
Perhaps Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds next? Let us hope that some
real achievers are knighted!
Torvalds, certainly, but not Stallman.
Since neither is a citizen of the United Kingdom, I'm not sure that they are
eligible.
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:31:48AM -0500, A. Harry Williams wrote:
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:59:23 -0600 Adam Thornton said:
I suggest that everyone interested in this discussion read ESR's new
_The Art of Unix Programming_, and not just because I got him to change
something on page 4 that will
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Which vulnerabilities are you referring to? The brk() attack obviously
can't work on s390
Dumb question: Why not?
What's new in release 3.01
Release date: 30 November 2003
* Bypass gcc 2.96 optimizer bug that caused incorrect instruction
execution (Ivan Warren)
* Added command-line control panel command history (Martin
Gasparovic, Volker Bandke)
* Added ALS4 (z/990)
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:21:24AM -0500, John R . Campbell wrote:
Seriously, though, if we had a WINE-like tool for Windows that
could run Linux Apps on Windows w/o recompilation... now THAT
might be far more interesting since Linux is far less unstable
an API to code for (i.e. no
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:21:42PM -0600, James Melin wrote:
http://www.penguicon.org/index.php?p=General_Info.html
I went to the first one, and while it was a bit disorganized, it was an
absolute blast. If I can swing it, I'll be back to the second one.
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:00:27PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hmm.. What I loved about the film, was the kid's computer. It was
supposed to be an S-100 based unit, one of the IMSAI jobs. And
naturally the modem as well.
Smile when you say that, pardner...my first computer (which I still own)
The RPM binary distributions of Hercules 3.00 have a problem and should not
be used. The RPMs were built with gcc 2.96 on Red Hat 7.2, and have been
affected by an optimizer bug that causes the result of the SRA instruction
(and possibly others) to set the condition code incorrectly.
This problem
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:20:07PM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote:
Hercules works fine on Mac OS X; in fact, it's Jay Maynard's favorite
platform.
Indeed. One caveat, though: Networking is currently not supported in
Hercules for OS X. I really want to fix that, but other things have gotten
in the
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:14:19PM -0500, Lloyd Fuller wrote:
I haven't seen a Hercules compiled for the G5, so you may have to do the
compiles yourself.
Correct. The distribution version of Hercules is built on OS X 10.2.8, on
and for the G4. (Anyone wanna donate a G5 to the cause? :-) I don't
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:48:58PM -0500, Guillaume Morin wrote:
Dans un message du 30 Oct ` 14:41, Jay Maynard icrivait :
I haven't seen a Hercules compiled for the G5, so you may have to do the
compiles yourself.
Correct. The distribution version of Hercules is built on OS X 10.2.8
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:47:06PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
Hercules at least builds on all Debian architectures, including a couple
which fit that profile (sparc64 and ia64), and has for some time.
I've only actually run it on sparc64 in 32-bit mode, and didn't do much with
it.
True.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:05:46AM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote:
Everyone noticed that MS dropped support for Linux, BSD, Netware, and
Solaris from the new beta of what used to be the Connectix product,
right?
http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?id=5516catid=1
The other thing that caught my eye
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:38:04AM -0500, Lucius, Leland wrote:
Wow. I can't believe you guys are still caring around every device types
baggage in the DEVBLK for each device. Why should a DASD device allocate
storage that would be used for a TAPE device. Mind, it taint much, but...
Now
What's new in release 3.00
Release date: 2 October 2003
Dynamically loaded module support for devices, instructions, and
operator console panels (Jan Jaeger, David Fish Trout, Ivan
Warren)
Shared and remote DASD support (Greg Smith)
z/990 (ALS4)
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 03:57:10PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:49, Rich Smrcina wrote:
The real card reader could be ATTACHed to a virtual machine or can be
used to IPL a system native.
Well, if it works. I thought very early on there was discussion that an
actual
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:53:37AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Previously, the limit was 128 Mbyte and that was NOT
architecture-specific.
Actually, it was...the limit was 512 MB on the Alpha.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:31:57AM -0500, James Melin wrote:
Well, If this goes the way I think it's going (SCO going down in flames),
their Lawyer that a certain august member of this list has been confused
with, is going to have the worlds largest resume stain.
Doubtful. He's had a bigger
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:24:18AM -0400, Mark D Pace wrote:
I keep seeing references to big endian and little endian. I am going to
show off my ignorance here and ask - What does this mean? I do not know
what the term endian means.
From the Jargon File:
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:27:11AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Linus bases the pronunciation of Linux on the way he says Linus, but we
pronounce Linus quite differently.
To misquote Tonto: What's this 'we' stuff, white man?
I try to pronounce Linux the same way Linus does. Being a Texan,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:06:03AM -0500, Richard Troth wrote:
Perhaps someone from SuSE will do the Linus trick
and record a sound bite for us all.
The last time I heard someone from SuSE pronounce it, it was more like
ZOO-zuh...maybe a little softer than an English speakler woul pronounce a
Z
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:18:22PM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote:
Though it you can get a TRON-like view of the [Master] Control Program
and your guest LANs! Totally awesome!! ;-)
Yeah, but if it shows your co-workers dressed in green tights with fancy
flashing circuit designs on them, that my
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:55:58PM -0400, Jim Elliott wrote:
OK. I am at LinuxWorld Expo in beautiful, sunny, warm San Francisco.
SuSE has a large booth here (and is also in IBM's and a lot of other
booths). I will ask the SuSE team tomorrow how they pronounce SuSE!
I mentioned this to my
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 07:26:31PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 07:47, John Summerfield wrote:
For starters, hands up those using a Linux email client?
wave
wave
I've been reading mail with mutt, and before that elm, on Linux for *years*.
Not only that, but it's Linux on
Does Linux/390 (and/or z/Linux) use disabled wait codes in the same manner
as MVS and VM? Is there any significance to the instruction address part of
the disabled wait PSW? If not, anyone have a guess as to how hard it would
be to add, at least for common cases?
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
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:01:11AM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 11:55, Gregg C Levine wrote:
Of course, I had known that Rick Troth went to Rice University from
the VM/ESA list, of course, but not the part regarding Texas AM. Both
being good schools, I can see why this
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:05:29AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:47:38AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Conceivably you could use either on S/390, but all members of the
cluster would have to be S/390 (or zBoxes pretending to be S/390).
Is a Hercules node good
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:38:49AM -0500, John Campbell wrote:
For the poorly enlightened of us out here, has anyone put together
the Linux equivalent of the MVS Tur(n)Key CD?
Not yet, but it shouldn't be difficult; starting with Matt's Debian DASD
image is currently the closest thing I
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:23:53AM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
I've actually met one of those contraptions. A piece of, *, well
never mind. But it did start the portable computer generation. Anybody
remember the Compaq Portable series?
Remember? I've got one in a closet here.
When Compaq
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:29:34AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
I have seen a few of the Compaq Portables. They seem to be remarkably
well built.
There was a three-foot drop in the production line. THe machine was powered
up and running a test program; if it glitched in any way during or after
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:49:50PM -0800, Steven A. Adams wrote:
You can come pretty close on IA32 hardware, using duplicate servers and
so-called failover. See www.linux-ha.org.
I think ComPaqard calls this Hymilaya (used to be Tandem).
Nope. Tandem/Compaq Himalaya systems are (currently)
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:14:18PM -0500, David Boyes wrote:
Next time y'all are in DC, drop me a note. I can be convinced to bake
cinnamon rolls.
You really made this promise, knowing that SHARE is coming to DC in August?!
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:02:42PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
Also, I don't think I ever described the hypothetical person as my
special friend, indeed, I don't think of him as very friendly at all.
All will be well if you think of special friend in the way Yakko Warner
does.
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:49:30PM -0600, James Melin wrote:
Mark, any conjecture as to why Red Hat would do what I feel is a customer
Disservice by not including the OCO modules where SuSE does include them?
Red Hat does not, as a matter of policy, include *any* OCO drivers in its
systems.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:41:07AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
I am surprised that some of you
can't figure out the difference between command mode, and insert mode.
The problem is that typig text at vi in command mode is often catastrophic,
and there's no good way to tell if you're in command
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:49:41PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:00:02PM -0500, David Boyes wrote:
Yes, but the point is that it is not installed by default. The only visual
editor installed by default is vi, or some clone of it, so you have to
know at least a
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:34:46AM -0600, Nix, Robert P. wrote:
Use what you like, but learn at least vi as well, so that you aren't stuck
without your favorite somewhere.
Exactly. I know enough of vi to get around, clumsily, for exactly this
reason. Besides, the better you know vi, the better
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:08:39AM +, Alan Cox wrote:
A growing 'I clicked on edit file' community, which I think is good for
the non technical end of things. Also the 'wordstar is king' community who
tend to run joe (or hardcore wstar folk as 'jstar').
Naw. *Really* hardcore W* folks do
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:17:21PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
I'm surprised not to find an Emacs mode for emulating this environment,
since the feature sets seem to have a lot of overlap.
EMACS has a lot of wired-in assumptions about how editors are supposed to
work that make implementing a
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:45:51PM -0800, Ken Dreger wrote:
I just got this from my friend the PI,
...who apparently fell for an urban legend.
PLEASE pass this on to everyone YOU know.
If you have mailing lists and/or newsletters from organizations you are
connected with, I encourage you to
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