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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bitnet,FTP,TCPIP
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Date: 9 Oct 89 02:49:51 GMT
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In article <159@edsr.eds.com>, wjb@edsr.eds.com (Bill J. Biesty) writes:
>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
>[...]
Well, the IBM 4381 here runs VM/CMS.  And I can tell you, it is not too
impressive.  I just love 8-character file names with 8-character file
types and no sub-directories.  This is CMS v5.0 I believe, though 6.0
is in use at more progressive universities...and 6.0 supports sub-directories.
Yes, we are able to run FTP and Telnet and such, but the places I FTP *to*
are running UNIX (for example, uxe.cso.uiuc.edu is a UNIX machine).
Of course, the really progressive universities are running UNIX and don't
have a sworn allegiance to Big Blue.  Oh well, if the $deal$ is with
IBM, then so be it.

>Also, the REXX programming Language originated on VM/CMS, precursor to
>Arexx...
Yeah, there are EXEC filetypes all over this system written in REXX.
Of course, there are also MODULES written in compiled C, etc...but I
don't know a whole lot about it.

>Bill Biesty

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