In
<CAPD5F5qb7BRrpNErOPG9ZiLRs=9y3vwaxi6fhxquinhdove...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 03/01/2012
at 04:09 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>and it is correct, albeit in a Pickwickian sense, that OS/PCP "had
>only a single partition"; but it did support both transient and
>resident readers and writers;
It supported direct use of card readers, writers and reader, not a
separate SPOOL partition. The R/I was loaded between steps.
>there were even some very primitive to-2311-DASD RYO spoolers
>in use;
Only as the sole problem program running, not in a separate partition.
--
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)
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