Re: Interesting idea

On 8 October 2010 22:42, Gregg Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
> Here's an interesting one, over on the Z/VM list David Boyes just
> confirmed that a system running HP05 was finally shutdown. I didn't
> ask why, it might be obvious, but he did describe what system it was,
> it happened to be a 3090 family machine.
>
> Now would anyone know what system IDs were the sort that could, or
> even could not, be the sort of machine who could or could not, be a
> candidate for a "vanilla" VM/370rel6 setup.

I've tried parsing this about ten ways, but it still makes no sense to
me. Could you try to rephrase it?

> Now remember we have the
> original configuration who described what machine the creator of the
> original series had in mind.

This one too.

>  To be honest, I can't recall what VM/370rel6 was targeted towards,

Roughly the 168/3033 and the smaller machines like the 148/158.

> and for all I know it might have been run on early 3090s as their
> owners were working towards migrating towards, the ESA and HP05 family
> of operating systems.

It's possible, but I doubt it. I'm pretty sure the 3090 didn't support 2K keys.

Tony H.