News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Z/OS Introduction.

Re:Z/OS Introduction by WesSouza on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:31AM (#34831163)
What is this?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Z/OS Introduction by pyuser583 on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:45AM (#34831237)
Z/OS is a mainframe operating system.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Z/OS Introduction by pjmlp on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:48AM (#34831624)
Also one of the few OSes that was already "WebAssembly" everywhere back in 2000.

It is called language environments.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=zos-language-env...

IBM i and Unisys ClearPath MCP (nee Burroughs) are two other examples still being comercialized.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Z/OS Introduction by pyuser583 on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:22PM (#34837480)
What do you mean “was WebAssembly?”
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Z/OS Introduction by pjmlp on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:08PM (#34839812)
All the ideas that many folks sell as being invented by WebAssembly were already present in such systems.
[ Parent | on HN ]