[email protected] (Joel C. Ewing) writes: > The sentence where "VMS" appears has a subject of "computer firms" > (plural), so it is possible the intended reference was to non-IBM > software such as VAX/VMS rather than a typo. Since COBOL was supplied > by multiple manufacturers, only two of the four items listed (CICS, DB2) > are with certainty a reference to IBM-only products.
I've periodically mentioned that in the wake of demise of FS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys the head of POK convinced corporate to kill the VM370 product, shutdown the development group and transfer all the people to POK (or otherwise they wouldn't be able to make the mvs/xa ship schedule). The plan was not to tell the development group people until the very last minute in order to minimize the number that might escape ... however the information leak. A resulting joke was that head of POK was one of the biggest contributors to VAX/VMS (people escaping to work at DEC in the very early days of VMS). Endicott did manage to save the vm370 product mission ... but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch. reference to Bob Bemer helped create COBOL and coined the words COBOL and CODASYL http://www.computerhope.com/people/bob_bemer.htm I've posted this Bemer reference in the past about the "biggest computer goof ever" ... 360 was originally suppose to be an ascii machine. http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM also father of ASCII http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM and history index http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM and cics was originally developed at customer. http://web.archive.org/web/20050409124902/www.yelavich.com/cicshist.htm in 69 CICS changing to program product ... and the univ I was at got selected to be beta test site ... and I got tasked with support & debugging ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics and DB2 started out as system/r on vm370 370/145 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr and then tech transfer to endicott for SQL/DS. Then one of the people in this referenced meeting http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 claimed to have done the technology transfer from endicott back to STL for DB2. this account has how the corporation was all wrapped up in eagle ... research was able to do the tech transfer to endicott and get it out as sql/ds ... "under the radar" http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-SQL_DS.html then when eagle imploded ... there was request about how fast could there be a MVS port. http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-DB2.html -- 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
