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Re:Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with b... by rbanffy on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:43AM (#50427135)
I have recently played with a plain VM/370 R6 and it's very bare compared to CE - not even bold in the terminal to highlight your current line in EDIT. I was thinking of adding it to my collection of Docker images, but I need to play with tape images and, perhaps, load a bunch of them into the container image so there is something to do with it that resembles modern computing.
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Re:Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with b... by RossPatterson on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:21PM (#50434860)
> not even bold in the terminal to highlight your current line in EDIT

CMS EDIT was designed when the 3277 was the standard terminal. Those things had a SYSTEM AVALIABLE indicator on the center of the right side of the screen, outside the text area. That was the current-libe marker! When the 3278 came out, all the indicators moved to before the text area, but by then, everyone had moved to EDGAR or XEDIT.

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Re:Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with b... by rbanffy on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:04AM (#50438166)
I'm guessing neither EDGAR and XEDIT fall into the friendly license of VM/370...
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Re:Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with b... by RossPatterson on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:04PM (#50448065)
They do not. That's why we have EE.
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