Lynn, Yep I agree worked with some oriental programs, who slept under their desks..these guys were unbelievably good programmers..the group I worked with wasn't quite that bad, no in a negative sense.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Sep 26, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] (Elardus Engelbrecht) writes: >> I have occassionaly done a full night work, especially during >> emergencies like botched installation, upgrade or big changes. > > as undergraduate in the 60s, the univ would shutdown the datacenter from > 8am sat until 8am monday ... and let me have the whole place to myself > ... initially 709/1401 ... and in transition to 360, the 1401 was > replaced by 360/30 ... and then both 709 and 360/30 replaced by 360/67 > (mostly ran as 360/65). after having been up for 48hrs, it was sometimes > difficult to deal with monday classes. > > old post with "Real Programmers" tome > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#39 > > one of the items: > > Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are > around at 9am, it's because they were up all night. > > ... snip ... > > mentions getting complaints about tracking mud in halls of ibm san jose > research (from cleats in hiking boots) ... path that I walked to work > turned to mud when it rained. > > slightly different "Real Programmers" version > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#31 > as bonus, also has "Real Software Engineers". > > past post > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 > > while the 360/67 mostly ran as 360/65, I did get to play a little with > cp67 on the weekend ... has part of share presentation that I did fall > of '68 ... references some performance measures from having re-written a > lot of the cp67 kernel > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS > > The above mentions initial cp67 release May 1968 ... however, three > people from the science center came out last week of jan1968 to install > cp67 at the univ ... and then I was invited to spring 1968 share meeting > in houston for announcement ... I had already started to rewrite a lot > of the code by that time. > > I also took apart os/360 stage2 sysgen and re-arranged order of all the > cards to carefully place datasets and pds members for optimal arm seek > motion (pds member ordering also minimized multi-track pds directory > search) ... getting almost three times throughput improvement for > univ. student job workload. > > -- > virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
