In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/31/2005
at 03:16 PM, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It will he helpful to go back in time to the early years of OS/MFT
>for the System/360.
FSVO early. Also, "OS/MFT" should be OS/360, and the rules were the
same[1] whether or not you generated the MFT option.
>What was different then was that, even for keyword statement
>parameters, no mechanism for replacing their values individually
>was made available unless those values were also parameters of
>a cataloged procedure.
That changed with the advent of instream procedures (Release 14?)
around 1968.
[1] Except for things that depended on the presence or absence of
spooling.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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