Don't forget LS/MFT!   ;-)

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Scott [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:56 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: ot: Sobeys bails out of SAP


Jeff writes:
> Abbreviated OS acronym history:
>
> DOS - Disk Operating System (and they had it long before Gates)
> DOS/VS - DOS/Virtual Storage
> OS - Operating System (OS360 and later OS370)
> OS/MFT - OS, Multitasking with a Fixed number of Tasks (fixed partition)
> OS/MVT - OS, Multitasking with Variable number of Tasks
> OS/VS - OS, Virtual Storage
> OS/MVS - OS, Multiple Virtual Storage (each task has its own space)

I've got MFT, MVT, VM/370 R6, and MVS 3.8J running on my PC thanks to the
Hercules 370/390 emulator and IBM's having not have copyrighted their early
OS versions for some reason.

It can be rather entertaining to have your very own personal mainframe.

G.