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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
Date: 3 Apr 2025 18:12:24 GMT
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 06:52:14 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    So yea, I can perfectly believe they're keeping 360s and such alive
>    and working ...

Technically the System/360 was succeeded by the System/370 in 1970. They 
skipped 380 and went to System/390. However there is a lot of backward 
compatibility so the Zs can run a lot of the legacy software.