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> True, but unfamiliar and hard to learn combine to make it forbidding to newcomers. > Case in point: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26398/
by tivert 4y ago
> True, but unfamiliar and hard to learn combine to make it forbidding to newcomers.
> Case in point: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26398/how-does-one-customize-the-3270-terminal-login-screen-in-vm-370 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26398/how...
Though that's MVS, which probably should no be conflated with OS/400. The former is all kinds of trouble because it maintains compatibility with stuff from really old and limited systems, while the latter is quite a bit newer than UNIX so could have alien-advanced "science fiction" features.
- rbanffy 4y agoTrue. It's a bit mind blowing that some metaphors in MVS (that carry over to z/OS) are rooted on decks of punched cards. OS/400 has much newer ones and some of those are futuristic even now (the single memory map that encompasses fixed storage is a pretty cool one, even though deeply alien for most people).