Well, your defense of Jack would appear to apply equally to what I stated as well. So what?
As for your criticism of the Internet, I agree, but the actual piece I referenced was in fact from SHARE. I also have almost 50 years of mainframe to draw from, both live and in my archives. Again, so what? The fact is that I accepted your ruling as to whether HASP was an FDP or not. Was it really necessary to come back and crow about it? Did you really need to have the last word? = > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:56:09 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: "APL" or "IUP" > To: [email protected] > > J R responds: > > | I googled HASP FDP and find that Jack Schudel's > | History of JES2 also refers to it as such: > | > | http://www.share.org/p/bl/et/blogid=9&blogaid=238 > > In Jack's defense, HASP was a "field developed program" (in the sense that > it was developed by IBM employees working "in the field" [as it were]), but > it was not an "FDP". FDPs did not even (yet) exist. "IUP" and "FDP" were > terms that were coined by IBM at a later time. Instead, HASP was a Type III > program (types I through IV were the only designations that existed when > HASP and ASP first became available), but it also carried Service > Classification A (a very rare, special, and astonishing thing at the time). > Moreover, IBM couldn't get things straight even after those new > classifications were invented. Lots of IUPs were FDPs, and some FDPs were > actually IUPs. Go figure. > > There is a lot of incorrect information on the internet. I know this to be a > fact because I have recently seen something on another, much more > authoritative media: TV! There is an Allstate commercial that makes it > abundantly clear that the belief that they can't put anything on the > internet that isn't true ... is NOT true! Since the guy is clearly not a > French model, the internet is clearly not authoritative. TV, however, > remains perfect and unblemished. I thank the Pioneers of Television for > that. > > As a result, and not solely because of that Allstate commercial, I have > learned not to trust anything I read on the internet, especially about > computers; folks get a lot of stuff wrong (especially if they were not there > at the time). > > Instead, I reach back into what are nearly 50 years of mainframe & 32 years > of PC archive material. > > -- > WB [pack rat]
