Mainframes

IBM zSeries and S/390 mainframe hardware and software

ROMAN EXEC (Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Comission)

This file is a REXX EXEC that converts between Arabic numbers to Roman numerals.

Changing the Way Computers Compute

Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow, presented "Changing the Way Computers Compute" at the Hillgang user group meeting on 24 April 2008. This presentation explains the need for hardware-accelerated binary decimal formats and the emerging IEEE standards in this area.

IBM mainframe overview

There is now an IBM mainframe overview and history presentation available from the SNA publications web site: http://sinenomine.net/publications/ It gives a history of both the S/3xx hardware and S/3xx operating systems for those folks new to this platform

I'm a PC and UNIX user. What's a mainframe?

"Mainframe" is an unscientific term that means different things to different people, but generally speaking, a mainframe is a multiuser business or scientific computer the architecture of which is optimized towards I/O (input and output)

z/VM FAQ Library

This is the z/VM FAQ list for general knowledge sharing and \"best practices\" for both CMS users and z/VM systems used to support Linux.

VM/VSE Tech Conference, May 7-11, 2001

These presentations were given by Sine Nomine Associates engineers at the VM/VSE Tech Conference, May 7-11, 2001.

Sine Nomine Associates announces System V Init capabilities for VM

Sine Nomine Associates is pleased to announce the availability of a BETA TEST version of SysVInit for VM, a utility package that brings UNIX-like startup scripting to the VM operating system.

Conference Presentations 2007

This page lists conference and user group presentations for 2007.

VM/VSE Technical Conference, October 7-10, 2002

David Boyes gave six presentations at this conference, and we are pleased to provide PDF versions of the handouts here.

SHARE 98, Nashville TN, March 2002

Several Sine Nomine Associates engineers presented on a variety of topics at the SHARE 98 conference in Nashville. These are the PDF versions of the handouts from those presentations.
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