But It's Still Not Linux!  Submitted by Syscrusher on Tue,
2005/06/07 - 07:12.  If you've read all that came before, you
have probably decided by now that I am some kind of mainframe
bigot, that I'm one of those people who likes to sit in a glass
room with a raised tile floor and sneer at the little toy PCs.
Actually, quite the opposite is true. I am a PC maven through
and through. I got started in computers by designing my own
8080A system and I will never willingly give up the
responsiveness, flexibility, and control that I have with a
standalone CPU.  Besides, for all their awesome power and
scalability, the truth is that I don't like the command shells
that are standard on either VM or OS/390. VM has a thing called
Conversational Monitor System, or CMS, and OS/390 offers Time
Sharing Option, or TSO. I've used both for years, and they are
immensely capable environments. I can't knock either of these
for power or quality, but their command syntax just doesn't feel
as elegant to me as does the UNIX/Linux she