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Subject: Re: The USS Heresy (was Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and
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I am still suffering from the wanton usurpation of IBM's acronym "DOS"
(more
fully DOS/360), which I used 40 years ago on S/360 systems, to mean
nowadays
an operating system for Toys-R-Us computers. [2]
These days I'm obliged to say DOS (now VSE) for clarity.
With reference to "Toys-R-Us computers", how I remember the satisfying
tactile sense from the switches on the old Model 40 when instruction step
debugging an assembler program. The Model 30, on the other hand, was - dare
I say it? - rather plastic and disposable by contrast.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
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[2] I might be a mainframe bigot. :-)
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