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: > Well, back when I was starting SP'ing (Western Electric), slightly earlier > than your time frame, that was the job. > > You first figured out the bug, and then reported it to the vendor. There > wasn't as much hand holding as nowadays. You were expected to do most of the > research yourself. > > Of course, nowadays with OCO and no fiche, this would be a bit harder. some 40yrs ago, back when i was an undergraduate and doing a lot of virtual machine kernel hacking ... i would get requests for new features from the vendor. in later years, i conjectured (that because of the nature of some of the requests) ... some may have originated from some gov. agency. for some slight topic drift: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
