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Why did IBM skip "System/380" as a mainframe family name?
If you have a look at the announcements for the various System/XXX machines you mention, you'll notice a pattern:
System/360, April 1964.
System/370, June 1970.
System/390, September 1990.
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How does one customize the 3270 terminal login screen in VM/370?
It is now 33 years since I last touched anything remotely connected (no pun intended) to VM/370, VM/SP, or MVS, and the little grey cells are now full of C#, Entity Framework, and SQL Server rather ...
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Does anyone have any information on GUTS (Gothenburg University Timesharing System)?
I know for certain that Trinity College Dublin used GUTS on their IBM 360/44. I studied there from 1975-1979 and personally used it. It was phased out around 1978-1979 when they got a new DECSystem 20....
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How can the current date be accessed from DOS/VS assembler?
While GETTIME returns the time in R1 as BCD, the day is noted in the Communication Area of a partition, as noted for example in the GETIME description on p.275 in section 7 of the 1973 DOS VS ...
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Does anyone have any information on GUTS (Gothenburg University Timesharing System)?
Linz (Austria) University used GUTS in the early 1980s.
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