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Subject: Re: IBM-PC as a 370 ?? - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 2-Jan-84 23:38:53 EST
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haddock!johnl    Jan  2 16:13:00 1984

The XT/370 is specifically targeted at people who already have VM/370
systems installed.  You don't license software directly for an XT/370,
but rather get a sort of sublicense which lets you download it from the
mainframe where it already resides.  (Well, I suppose you could license
stuff directly, but the prices would be impossible.)

For software development and testing, it should be pretty handy, since
there aren't 300 other users who will get upset if the system or a
crucial application crashes.  As has been noted before, editing under VM
is a pain.  There's a large and slow editor named XEDIT which is not
terribly convenient to use.  Far better to use one of the editors that
runs under PC-DOS for editing and bring CMS up just for compiling and
debugging.

John Levine, ima!johnl