On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:10:57 +0000, john gilmore wrote: >The intent of my OP was to supply historical information, not >to stir up bootless controversy. > >APARs were indeed called 'Applied . . . ' before they were >called 'Authorized . . .'. > >The adjective 'applied' once indeed figured prominently in IBM's >marketing-organization names: The men and women we now >call 'systems engineers' were once, for example, called 'applied >science representatives' instead; etc., etc. > >Let me also note that I stopped posting regularly in this forum >chiefly because I found myself feeling and, worse, exhibiting >less and less patience with the effluvia of gratuitous, because >radically uninformed, responses that my posts too often >elicited. I now regret breaching my silence on this occasion; >and I shall in the future try to exhibit even greater restraint, >limiting myself to an occasional éloge.
Some of that has to do with the arrogance with which you post. Radically uninformed? Perhaps so. I've only been working with APARs since the early '70s and they were "Authorized..." then. I'm sorry, but I no longer have any references. Apparently neither do you. Gartuitous? PKB -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
