--- In hercules-390@yahoogroups.com,
"Phil Dickinson" <phil.dickinson@...> wrote:
>On 20/10/06, Enrico Sorichetti <e.sorichetti@...> wrote:
>> If by "ispf" you mean the Ispf program product
>>by IBM , well.... it will not run on MVS 3.8.
> If we had an old enough version it would run
>on MVS 3.8J.
> Both SPF and ISPF worked on this old MVS.
> But even if we could find the right distribution
>files, we might have dificulty convincing IBM to
>license its use under hercules.

SPF HPF1102 5668-009 was available in 1980.
Were there earlier SPF releases?

Please answer on hercules-advocacy:
If the copyright is 1980, how many more decades
will it be before it expires?
Could IBM refuse a company that started sending in
monthly or a one-time-charge license fee or fees?