My first computing job after Army programming school was at a place running PCP on a 64K Model 40 during the day and 1401 emulation for production at night.
Lloyd Programming since 1969. ----- Original Message ---- From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, November 1, 2011 10:21:02 PM Subject: Re: Scanning JES3 JCL In <93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c04e1e...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us>, on 11/01/2011 at 09:59 AM, "Roberts, John J" <[email protected]> said: >Fundamentally, the problem has its root in the design decisions made >by the original developers of OS JCL. Were procs in the original design? I know that symbolic parameters weren't. >It would have made a lot more sense to treat PROC's as a special >kind of MACRO call and then "PUNCH" out basic JCL statements. I don't see how that would be useful. >And I have a lot of appreciation for what they achieved on machines >with as little as 384K of core memory. 384KiB? We ran PCP on 128 and MFT II on 256. I know of places that ran on 64. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
