I think you have a choice whether or not you want to, but I think that the
default is yes, to maintain compatibility with VM.  I might be wrong.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> I've written a fair amount of 360/370 assembler myself.  This was before there
> were any C compilers for 370 (I did some very minor work on gcc for 370).
> I suspect there might be new I/O devices these days, though.  Do you still
> talk to I/O devices through the I/O controller (with selector and multiplexor
> channels)?
> 
>     -- Lennart
> 
> 
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
> > I am hoping my experience with S/370-S/390 assembler will help 8-).  I
> > would appreciate any help you could give.
> >
> > Peace...  Sridhar
> >
> > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> >
> > > It would be really great if you could start an IBM360 (uhh, I guess it's
> > > been renamed since I did any work last, but it's still the same, mostly) port.
> > > I hope I'll have some time to help.  It's been a while since I did any mainframe
> > > work. :)
> > >
> > >     -- Lennart
> > >
> > >
> > > Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> > >
> > > > Do you yet have anyone working on a port for IBM S/390 mainframes?  I
> > > > would be interested in writing one.  I have access to a P/390 (Genuine G5
> > > > S/390 subsystems on PCI cards talking to each other across a PCI bus) at
> > > > home and S/390 mainframes at school and at work.  I go to school at Marist
> > > > College, where I was involved with the Linux/390 port, which was written
> > > > largely by students and professors here.  I work at IBM Microelectronics,
> > > > where I can get internal S/390 documentation (although I can't share it
> > > > with anyone outside of IBM, but I can use it for external purposes).  Let
> > > > me know what you all think.
> > > >
> > > > Peace...  Sridhar
> > >
>