On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:40:15 +0000 Lindy Mayfield wrote: > I put this up a while ago. It is a talk given by Fred Brooks, Jr. on > the 40th year anniversary of the IBM/360. He doesn't seem to like > JCL that much, either. :-) > > http://lilliana.eu/downloads/jcltalk.txt
>From that paper: "From the beginning it was seen as a few control cards that would go in front of your deck." This is (almost) how I remember things from Uni - on a CDC 6400 running Kronos IIRC. I have a feeling it was only *one* card there. Quite a rude awaking to be dropped into an IBM 370 environment on graduation. JCL included ... Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
