I thought the macros were part of CONCEPT 14? I do remember working on IBM 3684 point of sale systems between 1982 and 1986. They were programmed using an Asembler like language called SPSS II, it had IF THEN ELSE and other macros.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 03:36 Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Those macros were not part of the assembler. As I recall there was a > popular macro package called CONCEPT 101 (sp?) floating around, and another > package called PROC, but they didn't come from IBM. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Mike Schwab [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: C > > I was doing an internship in the Chicago area during the summer of > 1984. They were using an assembler with IF macros. > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:11 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > HLASM in 1980? Not before June 1992. I assume that you were using XF and > H, possibly with the SLAC mods on the latter (thank you, Greg and John.) > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on > behalf of Donald Blake [[email protected]] > > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:51 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: C > > > > I took my first C course in 1980. The text was the original *The C > > programming Language* by Kerrigan and Richie, which I still have on my > > shelf, The text is copyright 1978. That's 42 years ago. I was an IBM HL > > Assembler programmer at the time. BTW ... we still were using IFOX00 at > the > > time as well. > > > > > Hey, it's not politically correct to point out how old C is. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
