Typo. Does ChaatGPT do any better? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of David Cole <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2025 3:09 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: It's not a bug it's a feature External Message: Use Caution I don't know what "Pilot" is, but Microsoft's copilot did take two tries to get it right. First try: >Me: From MVT days, what does HASP stand for? > >Copilot: In IBM's MVT (Multiprogramming with a >Variable number of Tasks) era, HASP stood for >Houston Automatic Spooling Priority. On the second try, I corrected him and then asked where the word "priority" came from, and he explained! [The short answer is it came from a human.] >Me: Close. It's "Houston Automatic Spooling >Processor", not "Houston Automatic Spooling >Priority". Where did you get the word "priority" from? > >Copilot: You're absolutely right the correct >expansion is Houston Automatic Spooling Processor. > >The "priority" slip comes from a bit of >historical drift in documentation and recollection. Here's what happened: > * Original meaning (accurate): HASP was > written at NASA's Johnson Space Center in > Houston, and the acronym was always Processor. > It was designed to manage spooling (queueing > jobs and output) for IBM's OS/360 MVT systems. > > * Where "priority" crept in: Some secondary > sources and informal write ups in the 1970s-80s > described HASP as handling "spooling priority" > because one of its key functions was to > assign and manage output/input priorities. Over > time, a few people mistakenly folded that function into the acronym itself. I think it's interesting that Copilot can provide reasonably good self analysis. Bottom line, talking to Copilot is much like talking to a human. He's exceedingly knowledgeable, but he's not always right. And just like with any real person, I have to be alert for that. Generally, with a bit of discussion, we can usually zero in on the truth. Dave At 11/16/25 11:23 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: >A new achievement in artificial stupidity; pilot >informs me the HASP stands for Houston Attached >Support Processor. They really need to change >the scoring algorithm to penalize wrong answers >more than "don't know". --Â Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
