In a message dated 4/10/2006 6:05:20 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JES2 derived from HASP = Houston Automatic Spooling Program >From FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing): A program developed by IBM for NASA in the 1960s to SPOOL output on OS/MFT and OS/MVT to improve job processing performance. Houston, that'll be Texas then... >> The story I heard was they liked ASP, but it was too piggy so a furious rewrite was undertaken and it became Half ASP. Most of the design objectives were met. When they went to present, it was deemed unsophisticated and changed to Houston ASP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
