On 3/4/2013 12:56 AM, Scott Ford wrote:
Anyone take into consideration the lack of skills nowdays. I am sure IBM is also running into this situation.
They're sort of coming full circle. The programming team on OS/360 had to start from scratch, and many had experience only on the 7094. The word orientation shows in IEFSD095 (big letter routine) that did character manipulation using word instructions, and almost no character instructions (IIRC, they used an STC, but that was about it).
Of course I may be doing them an injustice, and they might have found their version to be faster on the early machines?
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