[ale] OT: How different is z/OS from Linux/Unix?

[Mark Wright]

OS/360 became OS/370 which became OS/390 which became zOS.  I think  
OS/360 was based on earlier platforms that were not considered  
"mainframes".  I learned to write 360/370 machine code back in late  
80's to diagnose the hardware.  Only IBM writes MVS code but I think  
people that call themselves MVS programmers write JCL (job control  
language) and know how to install and maintain MVS.

I used to know some guys who could look at the 1 and 0's that were  
saved at each clock cycle in the cpus and tell you what operation the  
computer was doing and if it was working.  Still blows my mind.


Mark Wright
m.perry.wright at gmail.com



On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:50 PM, wolf at wolfhalton.info wrote:

> It is difficult to get IBM mainframes  to play with, but I want to  
> at least see z/OS at some point.  I have seen a little of MVS and  
> fellow list-member Mr Bass has told me about MVS on Linux, which we  
> have messed with but I (at least) haven't gotten to work.  z/OS is  
> a more recent development from OS/390 (or is it OS/360?).  Any ideas?
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