Gerhard, Shmuel and everyone else on the group, Thank you for the wonderful insight, you folks provided. It was quite interesting to read this whole e-mail chain. I shall keep this handy in my back-pocket. I never heard of the word "print trains" before, so I'll try looking up some more information on it.
Thanks again! http://in.linkedin.com/pub/quasar-chunawala/20/164/133/ On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]>wrote: > On 9/10/2013 3:37 PM, Barry Merrill wrote: > >> I vaguely recall benchmarking the print time of several Print Trains >> in the early 70s, and my memory of specifics was weak, but I know >> I identified three or four specific IDs that were 2 to 3 times longer >> and I'm pretty sure they all had mixed case, or so I think I was told. >> We went back to the users of those trains and either suggested changes >> or scheduled their large prints for those print trains during slack >> print times. >> > > 1403 print trains comprised 80 slugs of three characters each. The fast > print sets had six repetitions of the upper case letters and digits, with a > sprinkling of special characters. I've never worked with AN or HN, because > our service bureau had PL/I customers, and the PN train was the first to > support the not sign and nationals; IIRC it had four alphameric sets. SN > and TN had fewer repeats, so I guess the worst case would be a ratio of 3 > to 1? > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, Vermont > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
