The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Binyamin Dissen) writes: > ISAM did not "die". It changed into KSDS. > > Indexed-sequential access is used on almost every platform, some even now > still called "ISAM". recent x-over from comp.arch mentioning ISAM: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#3 21st Century ISA goals? other possible posts of interest in the thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#1 21st Century ISA goals? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#4 21st Century ISA goals? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#5 21st Century ISA goals? some other recent posts mentioning ISAM and "self-modifying" channel programs ... and one of my first assignments after graduation was spending a week at customer site getting ISAM running in virtual machine under cp67 (and trying to get dynamic modifications reflected in the shadow channel program) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#14 Cycles per ASM instruction http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#19 Cycles per ASM instruction http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#27 IBM S/360 series operating systems history http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#4 ISAM and/or self-modifying channel programs http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#34 Historical curiosity question previous post in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#2 The Mainframe in 10 Years ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
