[ale] OT: How different is z/OS from Linux/Unix?

[scott mcbrien]

Yes z/OS is basically OS390, but updated.  IBM changed the name of the
hardware platform from 390 to z Series several years back.

-Scott

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:50 PM, wolf at wolfhalton.info
<wolf at wolfhalton.info> wrote:
> It is difficult to get IBM mainframes  to play with, but I want to at least
> see z/OS at some point.  I have seen a little of MVS and fellow list-member
> Mr Bass has told me about MVS on Linux, which we have messed with but I (at
> least) haven't gotten to work.  z/OS is a more recent development from
> OS/390 (or is it OS/360?).  Any ideas?
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