I was almost there! I started in 1975 as an application programmer. We'd just gone from OS/MFT to OS/VS1 and an IBM SE came and talked about this thing called "virtual storage".
As a trainee, I had absolutely no idea what this meant for me. I had spent weeks poring over the IBM Orientation books. At this point I wondered if I would make it in the industry. Learning PL/I first probably saved my sanity. The more experienced guys were all Assembler programmers. On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 11:45 AM Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > My colleagues point out an interesting anniversary. IBM introduced OS/VS2 > Release 2 (IBM Program Number 5752-VS2) on July 3, 1974. The history is a > little complicated, but essentially it's the date when "MVS" was born. > Today's z/OS 3.1 operating system is the direct, lineal descendent of > OS/VS2 Release 2. Of course z/OS is vastly more capable and broader in > scope. > > Happy 50th anniversary! > > OS/VS2 Release 2 was WAY before my time. Do you have any personal memories? > > ————— > Timothy Sipples > Senior Architect > Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity > IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific > [email protected] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
