This surely isn't what you want/mean -- but related -- long ago I had the idea
for list-owner command "SET username BOZO". That would be a list option so
idiots only see their posts (so they know list works) and no others (so they
think list has dried up) and wander away. Similar to
https://en.
Thanks -- that's GREAT, much appreciated. (The silence was giving me a
headache!)
May I quote you, with attribution? Editor likes quotes and they can't be
anonymous.
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I've only had three jobs (3, 14, 6 years duration) before switching to
freelance writing/editing/consulting in 1994. But I'll chime in anyway with my
experience using assembler as a critical part of my work. I learned and used it
at IBM doing operating system development.
Second job was at Mitr
tech support, other than the one time mentioned
>above, none of my colleagues ever needed to make changes to assembler code. In
>fact, making changes to delivered software can be dangerous.
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around 2010, we
>> needed to change IEFUSI. Three of us were able to make the necessary
>> adjustments.
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>> In 40+ years in IT, 20+ in tech support, other than the one time mentioned
>> above, none of my colleagues ever needed to make changes to assembler code.
You'll rely on vendors anticipating with variables every possible requirement
for every installation? What happens when management comes to IT with an urgent
business case-justified request? Tell them so sad, too bad, our vendor doesn't
allow that? You consider filling in variables to be system
That's correctly spelled z/OS. Even beginning system programmers should know
that.
Degrees are often most relevant to people who rely on them for credibility, vs.
having actual qualifications and experience.
"Unless you work for IBM, you’re likely an installer of zOS" shows profound
ignorance
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>That's correctly spelled z/OS. Even beginning system programmers should know
>that.
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>Degrees are often most relevant to people who rely
who couldn’t hack college.
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>On Monday, September 4, 2023, 4:11 PM, g...@gabegold.com
>wrote:
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>That's correctly spelled z/OS. Even beginning system programmers should know
>that.
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>Degrees are often most rel
Yeah, sigh. It's sometimes hard to let pass nonsense such as what he spouted
about assembler language. But of course when his assertions are demolished, he
resorts to distractions such as whether degrees matter and who's had the most
short-term employments. Anyone here with as misguided an opini
You could also incorrectly "tell" that I didn't have a college degree.
You have a talent for gratuitous insults and an obsession with starting and
then arguing about wild digressions from whatever was the topic at hand.
AI to assembler language to system programming demographics is quite the
me
ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job
New technologies have long promised to make human software engineers redundant.
But developers have only gotten more important over time.
Software engineers have joined the ranks of copy editors, translators, and
others who fear that they’re about to be
I'm pretty sure this happened with VM, though might have been with OS/360 and
HASP.
User brought odd printout (1403 or 3211) to system programming, asked what
happened. It showed two output streams overprinted -- like a double exposed
photo. Clearly impossible, but there it was.
Research event
I'll bet 99% of people -- even those who ran OS/360 -- didn't t know what Roll
out / Roll in did.
I found it included in Mitre OS/360 SYSGEN when I joined company in 1971,
laughed, exercised it, removed it -- saving xxKB from resident nucleus, back
when bytes were precious.
It enabled JCL op
a 2018 post from Gabe Goldberg, who
>said he had "my OCO file -- a decade or so worth of material
>documenting IBM's folly removing source code ("Object Code Only" for
>those who didn't live through it). " Might be worth contacting him.
>I'm not sure
Bill, what's your goal in arguing about IBM? To convince people of anything or
just to rant? Reflexively denying things -- mostly without credible facts or
logical substance -- and insulting people with whom you disagree, isn't
effective debating. You just look silly, alienate people, and certai
OK, got it -- you're here to rant and insult. Good that it amuses you.
This is pretty far from useful discussion of mainframes -- the reason the rest
of us are here.
Bye.
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I left IBM in 1971 after working there three years. It was a great first job
and I left on wonderful terms, was invited to return after getting real-world
(that is, customer) experience. Three years, of course, meant that IBM's
pension plan/benefits weren't relevant to me. I got plenty of custom
Fiche was fun. Up to 370/148, microcode fiche was provided, including microcode
problems.
Browsing, I found one problem described as, "When LM instruction specifies same
register twice -- that is, to load one register -- all 16 registers are
loaded". Oops.
And once, working on an interesting b
Maybe someone will
earn a PhD documenting it.
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:25:00 -0800, Michael Stein wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 06:06:43PM -0600, g...@gabegold.com wrote:
>> Fiche was fun.
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>yes, definitely.
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>I remember using fiche two versions back (save that old fic
German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement
Four Brandenburg-class F123 warships employ floppies for data-acquisition
systems.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/german-navy-still-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-working-on-emulating-a-replacement/
On Sun, 14 Jul
In 1971, Mitre (DC-area non-profit think tank for government -- had a 2250
connected to OS/360, which included native device support for it. When we
installed VM circa 1972, I got to make it work under CMS (component of VM).
VERY fortunately someone at University of Grenoble (France) had written
My first year-end retirement account statement -- for 1971! -- listed my
projected retirement date as the incredibly distant, unimaginable,
science-fiction-like date of February 1, 2012. So back then at least TIAA-CREF
understood time windows spanning entire careers and beyond.
Quoting:
I was
Some time in early/mid-1970s, I did a competitive procurement of quarter-meg
upgrade for 370/145 going from 0.5MB to 0.75MB. Evaluated several vendors,
checked specs/references, etc. Spent about (as I remember) $30,000. A while
later did the same for 370/148 1MB upgrade from 2MB to 3 MB, same pr
For some processor models -- I forget whether S/360 or later -- add-on memory
vendors would install more memory than IBM designed for, expanding memory
address/data buses to allow it. And of course when such processors returned to
IBM they had to be de-extended, returned to IBM's limited address
Long ago, interviewing for job at software vendor, I was asked the best
question I remember being asked: "If you started work tomorrow, what product
would you want to develop". I had an answer, but reserved it for when I DID
start work. It went on to be quite successful.
There's probably a usef
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