On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:01:33 -0600, Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote:

>Straight from a slowly fading memory...
>In the early '70 IBM released a new and improved CRJE called TSO, a TCAM 
>application program. I believe it was part of IBM's "worst-ever" release, 
>OS/MVT Release 19. TSO brought us Sub-Tasking and related macros ATTACH and 
>DETACH using a newly expanded control block called TCB mapped by IKJTCB among 
>many other IKJ's of TSO. ...
> 
ATTACH/DETACH appeared contemporaneously with TSO!?  I'm astonished!
I'd have guessed they were much older, perhaps even aboriginal OS/360.
Was there no multiprocessing mechanism older than TSO?  RYO, I suppose.
That's what I understand JES and CICS (others?) do.

-- gil

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