Re: WAVV requirements

"commanonce" <philp-3Y/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], "halfmeg" <opplr@h...> wrote:
> > "Jeffrey R. Broido" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ><snip> 
> > As for P/390s, there is plenty of licensed software which 
> > can be pirated and run on one, ALS2 or no ALS2.
> ><snip>
> > 
> > >"commanonce" <[email protected]> wrote, 
> > >> Jay wrote:
> > >> For that matter, so is a P/390 - and those can be had a hell of
> > >> a lot cheaper than the other choices you list. By now, you can
> > >> find them for $2-3K or so, ready to run, if you hunt around.
> >   
> > > Supply is limited and thus so is the scope of any potential
> > > problem.  Also they're wearing out and don't support ALS2, much
> > > less ESAME.
> > > 
> > > A complete red herring.
> 
> So Phil, do you now imply that it is ok to run XA and ESA OSes (ie 
> License Only OSes) on P/390s without raising your own skull & 
> crossbones flag flying high because of the scope of "any potential 
> problem"?  Would the 9221-191 for $1,300 or so on eBay permit one 
to 
> run any licensed software because it is a rarity nowdays?

There is no such corollary.  I was merely stating that different 
exposures of the piracy issue have different weights.


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