Hello!
Back when Hercules was still growing up and the original list was not
as big as it is now, I made an interesting suggestion; Basically we
could find out if the list server software from LSoft was still
available from VM, we could track down a copy and get to run on
Hercules running VM/370 Release 6.
Naturally this was before I found out that two things did happen, one
of them was that LSoft made the bad decision to get out of the list
server on the appropriate IBM mainframe that we would be emulating for
VM/370 Release 6. The second was that of how such a mainframe would
find itself connected to the Internet. And naturally running that
release. It's possible that IBM did create a preliminary stack for
networking via TCP/IP protocols but, sadly a lot of the software we
would need is not available.
I found out about LSoft making that mistake at a trade show for the PC
about the same time I met an R/370. The R/370 made a better impression
than the droids from LSoft.
Who here (now) would know which release of VM prior to the Z Branded
releases did have networking available? I do know that Cliff Stoll
mentions what we run and the MVS crowd in his book.
Oh and Dave M? Please stop staring. The group does need all six to
make things work.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@...
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