Hi Martin.
Apparently, "Program" was used by some secondary
sources appearing in the early 2000s. Here's a
link to one such, last updated in 2003: https://foldoc.org/HASP .
Dave
At 11/17/25 04:09 AM, Martin Packer wrote:
I would've said "Program" but that seems to be
wrong - or 1980's instead of 1960's.
Cheers, Martin
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Date: Monday, 17 November 2025 at 05:29
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: It's not a bug it's a feature
I stand by my prior statement. You were being a
jerk in way you were telling people they were
wrong without deigning to reveal what was right
and backing it up with a link.
However, I do stand corrected. While I remember
being told the name was "Houston Automated
Spooling Process", there is a 1968 document,
titled "The Cornell-HASP [i.e. Houston automatic
Spooling priority] system for the IBM 360 [by]
R.W. Conway and W.S. Worley, Jr."
(<https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009880485>link) that backs you up.
WRT "memory is the second thing to go", that
would be short term memory. Long term memory is a bit more persistent.
Dave
At 11/16/25 09:34 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>They say that the memory is the second thing to
>go. The August 1967 catalog of programs shows it
>as priority. Maybe spend less time gratuitously
>insulting people and more time fact
checking. --Â Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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