Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!mako!jans From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: VM/370 origins Message-ID: <488@mako.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 12:03:13 EST Article-I.D.: mako.488 Posted: Thu Jan 3 12:03:13 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:15:18 EST References: <6912@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 14 In article <6912@brl-tgr.ARPA> Munck@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA writes: >...CP/CMS made the jump to the /370... becoming VM/370, and also began to >rival IBM's "main" operating system,... MVS. I've heard rumors that pitched >political battles between the two factions at high levels in IBM continue to >the present day. If you're a customer, IBM really pushes you toward MVS (stressing things like RACF, TSO, etc.). But guess what they use internally? Of the five machines in use at FSD (Manassas, VA) at the time I was there, only \one/ ran MVS, and that was (curiously enough, when related to this discussion) for outside contractors, because MVS/TSO was considered more \secure/! -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::