It cuts both ways; while there are things that I can't remember from 1960, there are things of no earthly use that I can remember, e.g., some 650 opcodes.
-- 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 Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2025 11:00 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: It's not a bug it's a feature External Message: Use Caution Jeez, your memory of a conversation 58 years ago isn't 100% clear? What's wrong with you? /s ...phsiii(who can't remember what he and his wife and talked about ten minutes ago!!) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2025 10:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: It's not a bug it's a feature > The August 1967 catalog of programs shows it as priority. My memory is not great these days, but I think I remember installing a "prerelease" in early or mid 1967; and I slightly remember a reference as "Houston Automatic Spool with Priority" - but the "with" in the name might have been during a telephone conversation with someone in Houston. During that early period the documentation was rather rough and (again, if I remember correctly) printed with a TN train. HASP was a wonderful invention! The "OS/360 Readers" and "Writers" it replaced were guaranteed to produce nightmares. (And I do not remember the correct names for the Readers and Writers. It has been a long, long time since I have seen any mention of them.) Spooling was not a new concept, of course. The 7090+1401 and the later DCS systems both quickly illustrated the strong advantages of spooling ---- especially when punched cards were involved! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
