In <[email protected]>, on 12/04/2012
at 08:10 PM, Rich Greenberg <[email protected]> said:
>Tim et al, This is a pure WAG:
And quite wrong.
>The START command has been around a LOT longer than the STOP
>command,
No.
>taps A on the shoulder,
The standard way to do that is to use a HALT (Z), MODIFY (F) or STOP
(P) command.
>It became the standard way to end a never-ending task. Then someone
>invented STOP.
STOP was in OS/360 in the 1960's.
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