Back in the dark ages we used INFO/MVS as a help desk recording system
Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jan 11, 2025, at 18:35, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > > Tom Brennan wrote, in part: >> V2 came with a screen editor and was a much more complete product in >> other ways too. It was kind of like someone said, "V1 is good enough, >> ship it" when it really wasn't ready for prime time. V2 probably >> should have been the first to ship. > > Software industry nowadays calls that an MVP: Minimum Viable Product. No > point in "finishing" it if it turns out nobody wants to use it anyway. > > Of course the challenge is that V: it's gotta be good enough that it doesn't > fail simply because it wasn't baked enough yet to be useful/usable! I'm sure > we can all think of products that failed that test. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Tom Brennan > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2025 3:20 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: history and evolution of INFO/MVS, INFO/VM-VSE etc. > > I don't know where it came from, it was just a reel of tape that arrived on > my desk one day. That was one of my first tasks as a new sysprog in 1983. > What I really remember was users asking for changes to the screens, and the > only way to edit them in V1 was by fiddling with the hex 3270 codes, which I > did. V2 came with a screen editor and was a much more complete product in > other ways too. It was kind of like someone said, "V1 is good enough, ship > it" when it really wasn't ready for prime time. V2 probably should have been > the first to ship. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
