Timeline for Were any IBM mainframes ever run multiuser?
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 12:43 | answer | added | Walter Mitty | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 23:25 | answer | added | shmuel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 21:05 | answer | added | Paul Meekin | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 20:28 | answer | added | Theodore Norvell | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 3:19 | comment | added | guiverc | Having worked in banking, I spent a lot of time on a 3270 terminal using ISPF on s370/s390 systems all day, everyday. (likewise some time on AS/400 and other blue hardware). In my experience jobs were run batch (you wrote the JCL that ran the program & submit it for execution), but there were times when we used rexx etc for small interactive tasks. Our terminals were interactive [ISPF] with the whole floor interactively using the same machine coding cobol/jcl/db2/.... In banking it was the norm (I'm retired now, but it was the norm for some decades at least). | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 0:32 | answer | added | Michael Kay | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 17:43 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen Certainly the System 38/AS 400 was multiuser. But the question seems to be about 360/370 systems. | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 17:34 | answer | added | IBM SE | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 17:32 | comment | added | Craig Tullis | StackExchange runs on Windows Server, IIS, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. To be fair, it does also utilize HAProxy, Redis, and Elasticsearch: nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/… | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 17:26 | answer | added | RETRAC | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 17:07 | vote | accept | rwallace | ||
| Nov 26, 2020 at 16:58 | answer | added | joe snyder | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 16:19 | answer | added | John Doty | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 15:48 | answer | added | Ross Presser | timeline score: 20 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 15:32 | comment | added | MSalters | You're assumung StackExchange runs on Linux, but I recall it's Windows-based. And IIS can share the multi-user capability of the OS, via Active Directory. | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 15:23 | answer | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 14:57 | answer | added | MTA | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 13:35 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 26, 2020 at 13:28 | comment | added | dave | But by that token, any IBM system with user identities -- say via RACF -- is also "multiuser", as long as more than one of those identities is "active" at the same time. | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 13:25 | answer | added | dave | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 12:02 | comment | added | mannaggia | I have to disagree where you say the multiuser capabilities of Linux are not being used - true, most people do not have multiple physical people logged in to a Linux system running an interactive shell. But there are processes running in the OS as different “users”. At a minimum, the current user and “root”. | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 9:05 | answer | added | Kartman | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 8:50 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | I used to work in an Agile Cobol shop on the AS/400. Everybody had their own account, and worked as individual users on the machine running what code was necessary for doing their job. | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 7:53 | answer | added | sawdust | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 6:20 | comment | added | user722 | My university used to give student accounts on their IBM mainframe running CP/CMS, and this was pretty common. Had I started a year earlier I would've gotten one for my first year CS courses. I believe all current IBM mainframe operating systems of the 80's at least had the option of supporting multiple interactive users. | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 6:20 | answer | added | Michael Graf | timeline score: 21 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 6:01 | comment | added | sawdust | I recall using a timeshare account on the university's IBM 360 back in the early 1970s. Primary task was writing and testing my APL programs. | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 5:43 | answer | added | davidbak | timeline score: 37 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 5:32 | history | asked | rwallace | CC BY-SA 4.0 |