In the early 1970s I had a taste of the humor of the HASP development team when I saw their description of a problem in RETAIN. HASP, which ran on OS/360 in key 0 and could overlay any byte in central storage, had been guilty of "spraying bits at random". And in 1969 I saw Tom Simpson, the chief HASP developer, in action at two consecutive sessions at SHARE in Boston as he described HASP internals. He liberally peppered the dry material with ROTF humor.
Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.4503 * Mobile: +1.508.341.1715 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Johanson Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AMBLIST Funny Subject: Re: Healther checker documentation From: Jim Mulder <[email protected]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:42:22 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 05/16/2008 12:46:13 AM: > I was going to say "obviously you haven't read the Diagnosis: Tools > and Procedure book. It contains quite funny sentences at the start > of each chapter". Unfortunately, when I just looked, they're all > gone!!!! It is still in te old os/390 R10 books. > > Those were sentences like for standalone dump "Like a trip to the > dentist. . . you only go when you have to, and you know it's gonna hurt". > Or: "SVC dump is like a burglar alarm. . . . It lets you know > something's wrong and helps you pinpoint where it started." > "Component trace is like a Swiss Army Knife: a lot of little tools > built into one." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
