[Info-vax] OpenVMS async I/O, fast vs. slow

[bill]

On 11/6/2023 8:35 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-11-05, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>
>> That's your real problem.  No one is selling your favorite
>> technologies to the younger generation, and the players in the
>> mainframe space make it sort of ridiculously hard to casually
>> gain exposure.
>>
> 
> The only public access I have ever seen to mainframes is via the
> Master The Mainframe program (which I was pointed to by someone here).

Master the Mainframe was fun.  I did it until I ran out of subjects I
was interested in.  Somehow Linux on a Mainframe just doesn't float my
boat.

> 
> I have never seen another legal way of gaining z/OS experience for free
> (although a _really_ old MVS version is legally available for free).
> 

z/OS is not the only mainframe.  I have UNISYS OS2200 running on this
PC just like the VMS Student Edition.

bill