From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 9 16:03:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04849 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 16:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04834 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 16:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA07800; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:32:43 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA12893; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:32:42 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980810083241.L11095@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:32:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Das Devaraj Cc: djv@bedford.net, Brandon Lockhart , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD References: <19980809104012.P14475@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Das Devaraj on Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 01:51:57PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 9 August 1998 at 13:51:57 -0700, Das Devaraj wrote: > >> On Saturday, 8 August 1998 at 7:12:01 -0400, CyberPeasant wrote: >>> The IBM mainframe OS, MVS, will run several OS's on >>> the same machine, simultaneously. Each user gets his own OS. > > Actually this is partially true. Any processor complex can be > split into logical partions (LPAR) using PR/SM (Processor Resource/ > Systems manager) and different OS' loaded onto them. These partions > operate independently, except when they share the IO devices. Each > user getting his/her OS is a stretch, since max is something like 10. Oh, sure, when you have multiple CPUs. I think we were talking about software multiplexing a physical system. > On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Nowadays the operating system is called OS/390, also known as UNIX 95. > > The traditional OS is still MVS with a lot of qualifications after > it like MVS/ESA etc (actually they seem to use that and OS/390 > interchangeably). I base my statement on some information I got from an IBM droid a while back who wanted me to hold a lecture for them. I used the term "MVS", and he said "no, that's called OS/390 nowadays". > Then there is OpenEdition MVS, which is UNIX 95 compliant. Could be, but this was the version he was talking about. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message