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EBCDIC

Why do you say this?

"It has no technical advantage over ASCII-based code pages such as the ISO-8859 series or Unicode, although for some time programmers appreciated the ease with which they could write case-insensitive EBCDIC sort routines. (EBCDIC places each uppercase and lowercase character together in its code sequence table. ASCII has two separate ranges for uppercase and lowercase characters. This difference is also the likely historical reason why mainframe operating systems have case-insensitive file systems and UNIX/UNIX-like operating systems do not.)"

If you look at the code page layout in the EBCDIC article (EBCDIC#Codepage layout) you'll see that lower case letters are in the range 81-A9 and upper case letters are from C1 through E9, so they are not together in the code sequence table.

I'll watch this page so you can respond here if you'd like. --JeffW 13:52, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Hercules and IBM patents

I don't know if you're watching my talk page or not, so I'll put this here, too:

I think that nobody inside IBM cares about pursuing any patent claims against Hercules, and I've been told that they've actually decided that they would not. I've also been told that, before they bailed out of the mainframe world altogether, Amdahl researched the issue, and came to the conclusion that a software emulator would not violate any of IBM's patents. I further believe that pursuing such a claim would severely damage their credibility in the open source world, something they've spent a lot of time, energy, and money establishing.

There's been a LOT of FUD slung at Hercules by one particular industry analyst, to the point that everyone's wondering just what axe he's grinding. This is his major contention. Nobody else - and this includes lots of folks I've spoken with, both inside and outside IBM - thinks it's an issue.

I believe that casting doubt on the legality of running Linux for z/Series on Hercules violates NPOV, since it's definitely one person's POV that there's any problem at all.

Thanks for the comments... Jay Maynard 23:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

PhostrEx

Thought you might like to contribute to this article. --Ng.j 22:47, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

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Merge of Category:ESA/390 mainframe technology and Category:ZSeries mainframe technology

Hello, I am quite opposed to this merge. Some time ago, I created 4 such categories, ranging from S/360 to zSeries, because the original page was real mess, and it confused 40 years old technologies with the latest ones. So I sorted the technologies into these. The pages for S/360 and S/370 are apparently gone now, and now you merged even those two. Also, most things there have been gone I don't know where. I hope you realize that S/390 and zSeries are very different machines. It's "nice" to see my own work in vain. By the way, the Category:IBM Mainframe computer operating systems is a mess too - it contains purely historical things, different old operating systems, parts of newest z/OS, and things as access registers that should go to zSeries category, since they are not tied to any OS. Samohyl Jan (talk) 07:28, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

z/OS Release History section

Hey there. Do you have any sources to back up the additional content you added? While I think it all sounds correct, it could be reverted as original research unless you go back in and cite some reliable sources. Thanks for your help. --TreyGeek (talk) 13:29, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

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