Paul Hanrahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > VM was open source before it was cool ! - Paul Hanahan
recent posting on the subject ... http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#8 various collected postings mentioning unbundling announcement of 6/23/69 (becuase of gov. and other litigation) and resulting transition to charging for software http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#unbundle unbundling initially resulted in charging for application software, but kernel software was still free (aka bundled, in the theory that it was required to operate the hardware). the vm370 resource manager (1976) was chosen as guinee pig for priced kernel software. ... vm was not only open source ... but also source maintenance. the original multi-level source update process was done as part of joint endicott/cambridge project to emulate 370 virtual machines under cp/67 (running on 360/67) ... recent post mentioning effort http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#38 Is VIO mandatory misc. old posts mention source update procedure: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#9 IBM S/360 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#57 line length (was Re: Babble from "JD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#26 Open Architectures ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#92 "blocking factors" (Was: Tapes) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#35 Computers in Science Fiction http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#2 IBM OS source code http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#27 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#58 Card Columns http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#62 Card Columns http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#44 filesystem structure, was tape format (long post) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#66 History of project maintenance tools -- what and when? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#77 unix http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#1 History of project maintenance tools -- what and when? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#7 unix http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#46 Slashdot: O'Reilly On The Importance Of The Mainframe Heritage http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#47 Slashdot: O'Reilly On The Importance Of The Mainframe Heritage http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#59 A POX on you, Dennis Ritchie!!! http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#29 [IBM-MAIN] HERCULES http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#40 IBM 7094 Emulator - An historic moment? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#43 Sequence Numbbers in Location 73-80 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#30 Shipwrecks http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#18 Integer types for 128-bit addressing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#36 Integer types for 128-bit addressing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#20 Systems software versus applications software definitions http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#6 [Lit.] Buffer overruns http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#15 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#16 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#30 Status of Software Reuse? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#39 Behavior in undefined areas? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#45 HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#5 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#6 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ? -- Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
