[geeks] Emulation versus replication

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:

> It ran IBM MVS 3.8 and JES2, and TSO. There was also some propritary
> time sharing system running, but it was slowly fading away. 
> 
> At that time MVS etc, were free as there as no competition for the
> hardware.

I don't think MVS, etc. were ever free, but I got into mainframes in
1979 - I am nearly positive that once IBM had to start selling (as well
as lease) mainframes, there was a price for software - when all you
could do was rent the machines, there was probably a price, but it was
not a line item on your invoice for software...


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Lionel

"I am not into examining other peoples' dumps..." - Sheldon T. Hall

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