On 7 November 2016 at 01:32, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Allen, Bill Gates, and Monte Davidoff famously created their first > BASIC compiler in 1975 for the MITS Altair machine without having an > Altair. They had to write an Altair emulator first then code on top of > that. Then Paul Allen flew to MITS in New Mexico to run his very first > test. They forgot to write the bootstrap code, so he had to write it during > the plane ride. Coding to the z/VSE Connector Client should be a lot > easier. :)
Whereas when, not many years ago, a small company wrote an emulator for IBM's z Architecture machines, IBM sent them a threatening letter complaining of (mostly bogus) patent violations. :-( Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
