In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
09/23/2005
   at 07:08 AM, "Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Interesting....  I remember it as System Productivity Facility, to
>which one could add the optional PDF (Program Development Facility)
>we now recognize as ISPF option 2 (mainly).  Of course it's possible
>that the "F" in each case stood for "Feature" rather than "Facility",
>but that was long ago and far away....

My recollection is that there was an additional step. Something like

     Structured Programming Facility
     System Productivity Facility
     Interactive System Productivity Facility

With PDF first splitting off and then merging back somewhere along the
line.
 
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