Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1569

that is the story about problems with later shipping SMP support.

up until that time, they were charging for application code ... but not kernel code. the original resource manager got selected to be the guinee pig for charging for kernel code. i got to spend six months off and on with the business people working out the business practices for pricing kernel code. the decision at that time was that if the kernel code wasn't directly necessary for hardware support (stuff like enhanced resource management), then it could be priced; otherwise it was still free.

the problem was that i included in the resource manager a lot of stuff a lot of structuring for supporting SMP operation. the resource manager was shipped before there was a decision to ship vm370 SMP support ... although I had been also working on a microcode-based SMP implementation: as well as the microcode ECPS performance buttist for 148 (later 4341)

concurrently with working on the resource manager.

In any case, the decision was then made to ship vm370 SMP support ...

which is obviously directly involved in supporting hardware ... and therefor must be free. however, a lot of the SMP code needed the code in the resource manager. The business rules required that you couldn't have "free" code with dependencies on "non-free" code. The decision was then made to take about 80 percent of the resource manager code and move it to the "free" kernel ... and the remaining code in the resource manager then eventually formed the basis for HPO ... and then the transition to SEPP (and BSEPP) ... and eventually vm-sp ... where you could now again have a single product ... where all the kernel was now priced.

two months before the resource manager shipped ... VS-REPACK shipped (from the science center). at the time that VS-REPACK shipped, the "science center" (was separate enbreasty from the vm-370 development group) and was eligible for non-development product program (people eligible for this product program received 1-12th of the each annual lease for the first two years). The month before the resource manager shipped, the "science center" was removed from the list of internal sites that were eligible for the non-development product program. As an aside, the resource manager pbutted 1000 installed licenses shortly after announce ... at $850-month ($10k-year). I even offered to forgo my salary to be part of the program.

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