Re: Announcing the VM/370 and VM/380 "SixPack" version 1.2 release candidate 1!

--- In [email protected], "au1john" <au1john@...> wrote:
>
> Dave, 
> 
> This is true!, and I have to admit that I have not looked at the "SixPack"
> distribution at all to see how 010 is defined. I seriously doubt that 010 in
> the Sixpack is defined as anything but a Model 2. 
> 

Correct: 010 is defined in DMKRIO as 3277 (model 2) and  it is the primary console.
  
> 
> I'm also quite sure of is that the 43x80 model 4 did not exist until the
> advent of the 3278 which had to have a 3274 CU.

Correct; the greatest 3277 was a model 3.  
 
> Another thing I'm sure of is that the 3274 and 3278/9 were not around when
> VM370 Rel 6 was current. 
> 

 Uncorrect; 3278 and 3274 were announced in 1977.

> Also recall that there is no real full screen 3270 screen I/O support in CP
> at the Rel 6 level. Guests may have been able to do it with dedicated
> devices, but CP is effectively line mode.  
> 

Partially correct; VM/370 rel 6 + SEPP supported full screen applications (for example the editor EDGAR, and the famous FULIST and BROWSE by Theo Alkela.)
In our SixPack VM/370  there's a full screen application (the fantastic GCIC editor written by Rocky) the works with a dialed terminal.

BFN

Paul