[TriLUG] MVS mainframes

[Andrew Ball]

I have a little experience with them.  They are quite different from UNIX,
although they have a UNIX subsystem and sometimes run Linux in other LPARs
(LPAR -> logical partition -> virtual machine).

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Andrew Gray
<andrew.james.gray at nc.rr.com>wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with MVS mainframes who might be able to shed
> some light on how they work from a users point of view?  I am still looking
> for work and was contacted about a position that entails working with one of
> these mainframes.  I have looked at the wikipedia entry and am unsure how
> much different it would be from using unix or linux.  I took a year of Red
> Hat in college and had played with FreeBSD and a couple distros for some
> time before that.  So basically I am more than comfortable with linux and
> run it full time and am wondering how difficult it would be to pick up and
> how different it would be.
>
> -Thanks for any help
> Andrew Gray
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