Very interesting, os/vs2/hasp was the first release i worked on. Before that 
all VSE.

Scott ford
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On Aug 6, 2012, at 10:53 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

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>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild
>> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 9:45 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last 
>> VSE program product Supervisor?
>> 
>> 40 or so years ago, IBM certified OS/MVT as functionally 
>> complete (or stable?) and stopped enhancing it.  Source code 
>> was still available back then.  A subset of IBM's mainframe 
>> customers kept using the last release of MVT for many years, 
>> as their management was not prepared to incur the expense of 
>> upgrading both processors and operating system in order to 
>> stay current with IBM's moving window of currency.  
>> Continuing to use the old, no longer officially maintained 
>> operating system was called "paddling your  own canoe".  At 
>> SHARE meetings, the principal spokesman for this concept was 
>> Dr. Robert Rannie, who would carry a large wooden canoe 
>> paddle on his shoulder throughout the SHARE week.  Google for 
>> "share os/mvt project ibm "wooden paddle"" and read the first 
>> four hits.  A copy of that version of MVT is still available 
>> and still works on certain computers.
> 
> And MS-Windows only runs on _uncertain_ computers. So called due to their 
> uncertainity of continuing to run without a BSOD.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Bill Fairchild
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