In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/11/2008
at 05:38 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You had storage? All of our programmers had "core", and
>persisted in that usage even into the late seventies.
Yeah, but not all shops "saved" money by buying a 370/155 after the
370/158 had been announced :-(
>In PCP all of storage was fair game,
I believe that PCP supported storage protection, although, of course, it
shared the exposures that MFT and MVT had.
>(there were a couple of loopholes in SVC
>parameter validity checking that IBM fixed eventually).
There were more that IBM never fixed in OS/360, and some that they didn't
fix in SVS.
>lucking out with an add-on memory whose
>protection capability had not been configured correctly.
At least you didn't have an alternate tape channel that hadn't been
upgraded to support IDA :-(
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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