Ed, Wikipedia has more detail for anyone puzzling over what ASP might be.
Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Finnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Monday, 10 April, 2006 3:55 PM Subject: Re: Over my head in a JES exit > > 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
