The STOP command appears to go back to at least 1968, waaaaay longer than most of these products have been around: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/operatingGuide/C28-6540-7_360 _operGuide.pdf
Pages 42-43. Warning -- VERY slow to load. Great manual! Darn near everything you needed to know about running all three variants of OS/360, in one handy 137 page manual! Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 8:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Historical question regarding the stop command > The START command has been around a LOT longer than the STOP command Really? Could be; I was a programmer, not a console operator, but that surprises me. I find evidence of a P command (at least for devices) going back to MVT here: http://www.neurotica.com/wiki/TechInfo:OS:IBM_Mainframes:OS/360_Installation #Starting_the_OS.2F360_MVT_system ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
