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OS/390

OS/390 is an IBM operating system for the System/370 and System/390 IBM mainframe computers. It is basically a rebranded version of MVS with added Unix services. The OS/390 base includes a Communication Server[?] that includes VTAM[?], the VTAM AnyNet[?] feature, TCP/IP and TIOC[?]. It provides SNA (3270), APPC[?], High Performance Routing[?], ATM support, sockets[?] and RPC.

OS/390 was introduced in late 1995 and was itself was rebranded in December 2001 and extended to 64 bit processors and is currently called Z/OS.


This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC's article on OS/390 (http://www.foldoc.org/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?OS%2F390), used with permission.



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