In <[email protected]>,
on 08/07/2012
at 02:27 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said:
>We had DOS/VS at that time. The DOS person said that DOS would
>occasionally kill his programs as well. With the words "USER
>REQUESTED TERMINATION". The programmer screamed at the DOS person
>to show him where in his COBOL, it said "PERFORM TERMINATION".
Once when a customer came to me with an ABEND in a COBOL program. I
asked her what was in R14 and she responded "But COBOL doesn't use
registers." A friend called from another room and asked whether I
would like an excuse to duck out. Thanks, Thom.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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