On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 10:18:13AM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: [...] > There are a group of hobbyists and enthusiasts that have taken MVS > 3.8j, which decidedly does not include REXX or prerequisites > therefor, and backported (?) REXX to it, including re-creating any > prerequisites. > > This is the creative and enthusiastic spirit that created Unix 50 > years ago and helped Linux become what it is today. Just think for > a moment where the mainframe could be in 10 or 20 years if even some > of these creative efforts were directed at enhancing the mainframe.
Perhaps this kind of spirit is not compitible with spirit of IBM? Perhaps one not only needs to imagine what could have happened, but also why something does not happen / have not happened? No, I do not have the answers. I think a good question is worth a thousand answers, perhaps. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
