Just to pick nits, it seems to me that time-sharing is alive and well on all mainframes, and especially in TSO. The whole point of TSO was that multiple users could be on-line simultaneously, which hadn't always been the case. TSO allowed us to log on, and stay on, and do foreground work without interfering with each other. And it still does, although we now take it for granted.
...So I have always understood, at any rate. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* ...the Rock Bottom Remainders....employ two powerful musical weapons when we perform ["Wild Thing"]. One is Roy Blount Jr., a great humor writer who has the raw natural musical talent of a soldering iron....when we get to the end of the first verse, we stop, and everybody turns expectantly to Roy, waiting for him to say "I love you," and Roy, frowning with deep concentration, inevitably says: "You move me." And then the rest of us, in a smooth professional manner, stagger around and try not to wet our pants. -Dave Barry, rock guitarist */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Skip Robinson Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2021 12:37 My favorite basket case is 'TSO', which was in ancient history Time Sharing Option. For as long as anyone can remember, TSO has not involved 'time sharing' in any meaningful way. Nor is it remotely optional. Spelling out the words contributes nothing to any discussion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
