Paul Gilmartin wrote: >So, who won? It doesn't sound as if the climate would admit a compromise?
VM/XA MA begat VM/XA SF begat VM/XA SP, which eventually moved to Endicott, and became VM/ESA and then z/VM. The core of VM/XA was actually much better than VM/SP; as a developer I found it much easier to work with. >The memories fade, but VM/XA as it was shipped impressed me favorably. One >thing I remember is that CP QUERY would tell the size of a spool file _before_ >it was closed. Revolutionary! And invaluable to operators trying to identify >the runaway VM. And the VM/XA SPOOL system in general was super-robust - I wrote a system mod (product) that tinkered with SPOOL, and while I created SPOOL files that couldn't be seen, and couldn't be opened, and couldn't be purged by normal means, I *never* took out the rest of SPOOL. Really nice stuff. Especially after the HPO 5 debacle! ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
