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The place where I worked (20+ years ago) some of the major batch processing was parallel . They actually did multi programming. I never programmed for them but I have a fair amount of debugging trying to shoot some bugs after the programmers gave up. Don't misunderstand me these guys were fairly sharp. Typical ascb had between 8 and 12 tcb's and all of them were doing serious work. We had to introduce them to the CS instruction as after we got an MP their code sort of worked (or not). The multitasking jobs would run from 2-3 (DAYS) to we had one that ran a week one time. I was really impressed with the system, although it was a monster cpu hog. Our biggest issue was restart. We were held at bay for up to a month trying to fix an OS issue as it might effect restart. The programmers who wrote the code were not your average coders. The "designer" while brilliant he was a mini god and he could get the users to reprogram stuff that we had been begging for years for them to do. but he could be stubborn as well. Ed ps: I heard that the company split off that division and sold it to some other company. I heard via the rumor mill that he reitred to a farm and ran a business there ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
