On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:05 AM, PINION, RICHARD W. < rpin...@firsttennessee.com> wrote:
> So you are saying I can't IPL OS/360 on our z13 :) > Not without an "RPQ". I remember back in the 1980s when Braniff Airways (now defunct) was running OS/MVT on a 3033. It only ran because IBM wrote special patches to allow it. These patches were only available via an "RPQ" (Request for Price Quotation?). Given that all the current IBMZ machines are basically "millicoded", I can imagine that it is _theoretically_ possible to have an a number of MCL variants which could implement almost any level of architecture. Of course, if marketing tried this, I would guess that they would be subject to a "dark ops" strike from the hardware engineers. -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
