[email protected] (Mosley, George) writes: > Does anyone remember, and better still, have a copy of a humourous > piece poking fun at IBM from years ago called (as I recall) "The End > of OS"?
previous postings http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#38 Virtual Cleaning Cartridge http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#52 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe? ... small excerpt: The end finally came in mid-October. System Release 110.7 was distributed, which converted everyone to MPSS (Multiple Priority Scheduling System), which combined the following control program options: Multiprogramming with a Valuable Number of Tasks Multijob Initiation Multiple Priority Secection Multiprocessing with a Variable Number of CPUs SYSGEN was accomplished with little difficulty in 504 system hours. Expectantly, customers IPLed and initiated their job streams. Nothing Happened Nothing. ... snip ... -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
