On 15 Dec 2008 09:35:03 -0800, [email protected] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>>Here's another way to think about it (and explain it) that might work. In >>1964, the business world changed when the System/360 was announced. Now >>you could write a program and that program was divorced from the >>hardware. > >ObQoheleth That is not new, it has already been, for there is nothing new >under the sun. > >Prior to S/360, people code and did move code from, e.g., GE 625->635, IBM >7070->7074, IBM 7090->7094. Those specific migrations were actuially >smoother than S/360->S/370. BTDT,GTS. I remember converting CoBOL programs to be able to compare files written in S/360 DOS to S/360 OS. Considerably after converting 1430 CoBOL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
