I would've said "Program" but that seems to be wrong - or 1980's instead of 
1960's.

Cheers, Martin

From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
David Cole <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 17 November 2025 at 05:29
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: It's not a bug it's a feature

I stand by my prior statement. You were being a
jerk in way you were telling people they were
wrong without deigning to reveal what was right and backing it up with a link.

However, I do stand corrected. While I remember
being told the name was "Houston Automated
Spooling Process", there is a 1968 document,
titled "The Cornell-HASP [i.e. Houston automatic
Spooling priority] system for the IBM 360 [by]
R.W. Conway and W.S. Worley, Jr."
(<https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009880485>link) that backs you up.

WRT "memory is the second thing to go", that
would be short term memory. Long term memory is a bit more persistent.

Dave






At 11/16/25 09:34 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>They say that the memory is the second thing to
>go. The August 1967 catalog of programs shows it
>as priority. Maybe spend less time gratuitously
>insulting people and more time fact checking. --Â  Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

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