In <93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3bfbbcd...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us>, on 10/07/2011 at 01:11 PM, "Roberts, John J" <jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us> said:
>This was all very tongue in cheek, but much of what I said is based >upon my reality back in 1970. I did indeed work on a 512KB S360/65 >system running release 19. And seven concurrent jobs might have >actually been possible since the standard region was 56K and we >wrote a lot of code using overlays. Leaving 120 KiB for the system? Again, MFT II is more plausible than MVT. >I'm surprised the old-timers didn't comment on my mention of APL. Why? >This was the original "write-only" language It was possible to write readanle APL. The write-only code was part of the hacker culture, not intrinsic to the language. -- 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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