Benyamin:
It was later explained to me that SPF was written at a woman's
undergarment (Bra?) place in Chicago by I think an IBM person (or
group). My mind is complete blank as to its name. Whoever came up
with structured program facility was short sighted IMO. The immediate
use might have been that but it was just plain misleading and a lot
of people looked elsewhere quickly when they heard the name. At the
time we were using TCAM and the fullscreen was at best clumsy IMO.
VTAM fixed that of course but until ISPF came along (it, Fullscreen)
was well supported, IIRC.
Ed
On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:00:22 -0600 Ed Gould
<[email protected]> wrote:
:>I think you are about right on the time line. I do remember the two
:>separate products. We had look at ISPF (we had gone FSE instead).
:>Our IBMers at the time went AWOL and I could never get a good
:>explanation between the two products.
:>We decided to keep FSE as it was a lot less $$$ . We also did not
:>like the proliferation of ISPF datasets (at the time DASD was
:>expensive).
I remember when SPF was being tested at Western Electric and I much
preferred
Session Manager + FSE.
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