In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't know about MFT, but MVT was reclassified as Class C (meaning frozen, > no more new releases, no more fixes) in November, 1977. I continued working > with it and other OS/360 variants off and on until late 1983.
It wasn't completely frozen, because I learned sysgen assisting a 1978 sysgen of MVT 21.8E, and in 1979 led a sysgen of MVT 21.8F, which had come out in the meantime. (Got a huge increase in batch throughput by making the tape error recovery routine resident instead of transient.) -- Randy Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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