Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:32:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Das Devaraj <das@netcom.com> Cc: djv@bedford.net, Brandon Lockhart <brandon@engulf.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980810083241.L11095@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9808091311.A6903-0100000@netcom3>; from Das Devaraj on Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 01:51:57PM -0700 References: <19980809104012.P14475@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.3.89.9808091311.A6903-0100000@netcom3>
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On Sunday, 9 August 1998 at 13:51:57 -0700, Das Devaraj wrote: > >> On Saturday, 8 August 1998 at 7:12:01 -0400, CyberPeasant wrote: >>> The IBM mainframe OS, MVS, will run several OS's on >>> the same machine, simultaneously. Each user gets his own OS. > > Actually this is partially true. Any processor complex can be > split into logical partions (LPAR) using PR/SM (Processor Resource/ > Systems manager) and different OS' loaded onto them. These partions > operate independently, except when they share the IO devices. Each > user getting his/her OS is a stretch, since max is something like 10. Oh, sure, when you have multiple CPUs. I think we were talking about software multiplexing a physical system. > On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Nowadays the operating system is called OS/390, also known as UNIX 95. > > The traditional OS is still MVS with a lot of qualifications after > it like MVS/ESA etc (actually they seem to use that and OS/390 > interchangeably). I base my statement on some information I got from an IBM droid a while back who wanted me to hold a lecture for them. I used the term "MVS", and he said "no, that's called OS/390 nowadays". > Then there is OpenEdition MVS, which is UNIX 95 compliant. Could be, but this was the version he was talking about. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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