Re: PDOS/3x0 on real hardware

"kerravon86-/[email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
---In [email protected], <ivan@...> wrote :

> I still have absolutely NO idea what you are trying to achieve..

I've already achieved what I wanted. Now
I am making incremental improvements.

> First this PDOS thing was suppose to be a MSDOS type OS that runs on 
> S/390 - now it's a infrastructure to run MVS style programs

What do you think it actually means to run
MSDOS on S/390? I can't do an INT 21H
on S/390 hardware, I need to do an SVC.
So something needs to change. And if I'm
doing SVCs, why not start by supporting
the SVCs that PDPCLIB MVS programs
are currently issuing?

> (but without the associated services)...

Only the SVCs or program calls need
to work. It doesn't matter how that is
achieved internally.

> And somewhere there must be some C90 (????)
> compliance by sending random 
> I/Os to uncompatible terminal devices...

C90-compliance is the primary goal, and I
have successfully supported 3270s so that
C90-compliant programs can run on that.

> And it has to IPL off of DASDs for which you
> obviously didn't read the manual...

What manual? If you know why I can't
IPL from a 9345 without a kludge, please
enlighten me.

BFN. Paul.
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