On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 14:11 -0400, Steve Comstock wrote: > > > Nobody morphed HASP into ASP or vice versa. > > Huh? HASP was the efforts of NASA Houston and came out as Half ASP. > > Renamed to Houston ASP. > > I think that's just a story. I recollect HASP came first, > out of NASA as you say, and ASP was developed separately > out in Thousand Oaks, CA.
Notes I took at a SHARE presentation 18 years ago (!) say that the same people who built ASP built HASP. NASA was less than enthusiastic over the prospect of having to spend money on a second box just for spooling, so the SPOOL program was born, renamed to HASP. I'd never heard the "Half ASP" part of the story, but it fits considering that SPOOL required half the processors of ASP. See: http://www.redbug.org/dba/sharerpt/share79/o441.html See also Bill Fairchild's recollection where he mentions Simpson and Crabtree: http://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg09350.html -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
