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

Sirs,

OK, so can someone say if I did something wrong or is this an issue with how DMKRIO was produced?


Blake


--- In [email protected], "paoloG" <crc@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "au1john" <au1john@> wrote:
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> > Dave, 
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> > 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. 
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> Correct: 010 is defined in DMKRIO as 3277 (model 2) and  it is the primary console.
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> > 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.
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> Correct; the greatest 3277 was a model 3.  
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> > Another thing I'm sure of is that the 3274 and 3278/9 were not around when
> > VM370 Rel 6 was current. 
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>  Uncorrect; 3278 and 3274 were announced in 1977.
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> > 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.  
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> 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.
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> BFN
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> Paul
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