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From: wjb@edsr.eds.com (Bill J Biesty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bitnet,FTP,TCPIP
Summary: IBM FTP VM/CMS
Message-ID: <159@edsr.eds.com>
Date: 4 Oct 89 20:57:13 GMT
References: <8909260648.AA04504@jade.berkeley.edu> <11664@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: EDS Research, Dallas, TX 75230
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In article <11664@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, jyegiguere@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) writes:
> Yes, even IBM mainframes running VM/CMS can now support the TCP/IP
> protocols such as Telnet and FTP.  Kinda scary, eh?  Of course, the

Sure!  But how many IBM mainframes actually run VM/CMS?  Not many
says the author of _The_Programmers_Survival_Guide_ whose name I can't
remember.  She says that even if they do run VM/CMS it's only to be able
to run multiple other operating systems on top of it.  It's IBM's best
kept secret (they didn't want to let it out the door since you don't
need *HUGE* staffs to support it) and the only OS they've got that
isn't a kludged batch system.

(I know this isn't really about the amiga, don't bother to complain to me.)

Also, the REXX programming Language originated on VM/CMS, precursor to
Arexx...

Bill Biesty

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