[Info-vax] VAX/VMS V1, V1.5 or anything older than V5

[MG]

On 30-5-2012 5:50, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> If you like old stuff that was good way back when, why not run
> OS/360 on Hercules? It took everybody else another twenty years
> to catch up on their compilers (to be as good as they were 20
> years ago) and nobody ever caught up to the OS.

No, I don't necessarily like things because they're "old," but,
I am indeed fairly interested in IBM's mainframe (both old and
new).  I have made rather quick attempts, months ago, to set up
Hercules.  I didn't get far, it's quite complicated for someone
(like myself) without prior IBM mainframe experience.  I know
it's something 'totally different,' but I do from time to time
log onto a public access AS/400.  To this day I haven't found
any document, let alone from IBM, comparing the differences and
similarities between the IBM "System z" and "System i" platforms.
All I know is that "z" is descended from S/360, S/370, S/380,
S/390 and so forth and considered the true 'mainframe,' based on
its own processor/-architecture (instead of POWER, like "i" is
nowadays).

This isn't the right thread, or Usenet for that matter, group to
discuss this though.  VMS still interests me a lot more, I have
to admit, as it's more general purpose than the IBM "z" and "i"
offerings.

  - MG