[TriLUG] MVS mainframes

[Christopher L Merrill]

Wow...MVS.  This is going to date me. I was working part-time in an IBM shop
in the mid 80s when they upgraded to MVS.  I assume it has changed a lot
since then, so my comments probably aren't relevant.  From what I remember,
it was a _very_ different world from anything else I've used (apple, dos, mac,
windows, linux, dec vax/unix, att unix, solaris).  Well, except for other IBM
mainframe stuff - it was pretty similar to those.

Chris


Andrew Gray 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.


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