new: s390 article #25
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I listed some things that stood out while reading this.
Not all of the recommended changes are strictly language mistakes, some of them would, in my humble opinion, make the text easier to read.
Regarding the actual content, I would defer this review to someone with actual knowledge of the subject matter.
In any case, this article does not cite any sources, that is definitely a must.
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| * Contrary to popular belief the S/3X0 supports ASCII, an example of this is z/Linux which | ||
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No lists consisting of single items.
Comma after "belief". Full stop after "natively".
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| The S/390 is part of the S/3X0 family, however most of the S/390's capabilities and |
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I would put a full stop after "family".
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| The S/390 is part of the S/3X0 family, however most of the S/390's capabilities and | ||
| code can be reused on later and previous models such as the S/360, S/370, S/370-XA | ||
| and z/Arch (using the ESA/390 compatibility mode). Through this article the collective |
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"Throughout" instead of "through".
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| S/360:: The first System/3X0 mainframe. | ||
| S/370:: A 24-bit mainframe, sucessor and backwards compatible with S/360. |
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"successor to", instead of "sucessor"
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| == Key Terms | ||
| The mainframe has an extensive and unique history - and as such it doesn't commonly |
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| Track:: A track contains various records, the size of a track is fixed and the last record | ||
| is used to fill the remainder data (in the case where the track isn't divisible by whole | ||
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| Cylinder:: A cylinder can hold various tracks, this is the biggest unit for a CKD disk |
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| DOS/VS:: Direct Operating System with Virtual Storage. An small operating system resembling | ||
| MVS in functionality. | ||
| TK-4:: A distrobution of MVS3.8j, includes the SPF editor (with support for lowercase characters |
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| S/3X0 was commonly used along with procedular languages regularly, however they |
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procedular -> procedual
comma after "however"
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| == Example OSes | ||
| Many public domain Operating Systems exists for the mainframe, due to their publicly accessible |
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exists -> exist
"operating systems" lower case
Are you sure all the OSes listed are public domain?
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Only MVS3.8J, TK-4, PDOS/3X0 are public domain, the rest are GPL/BSD, will remove 'em
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| MTS:: Multi-Task System, self descriptive, one of the first instances of a multitasking OS in | ||
| computer history. |
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This definitely needs a source, I couldn't find any mainframe OS with this name.
I could only find a S/360-67 and S/370 OS from 1967 called "Michigan Terminal System (MTS
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All stuff noted above has been fixed, hopefully this is good enough :) |
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