shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: > Wasn't CPS a rebranded RUSH?
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#74 Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC is this your work? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen-Babcock pg20 "RUSH as a PL/I Subset" http://www.iron-spring.com/PLI_Bulletins/PLI_Bulletin_4.pdf and this: Conversational Programming System http://home.uchicago.edu/~rthielen/cps.html from above: "Conversational Programming System is a time-sharing system that runs in a partition of OS/360 Release 17 MFT II or MVT. The CPS language is a conversational dialect of PL/I and includes a modified subset of the BASIC language of IBM CALL/360. The system also provides Remote Job Entry to batch processing and Remote Job Output to a designated terminal from a dataset designated by any batch job." (This was hot stuff!) ... snip ... Call/360 terminal reference guide http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/call_360/CALL_360_Terminal_Reference_Manual_Sep69.pdf 1968 ... http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/dpd50/dpd50_chronology3.html The Information Marketing Department is transferred on October 22 from the Data Processing Division to IBM's Service Bureau Corporation. The department is responsible for marketing QUIKTRAN, as well as the company's new CALL/360 time sharing subscriber services, BASIC and DATATEXT. ... snip ... at the time the cp67 group takes over the IBM Boston programming center on the 3rd flr ... Jean Sammet was part of the group http://computer.org/computer-pioneers/sammet.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet as well as nat rochester http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Rochester_%28computer_scientist%29 trivia ... further expansion of the vm370 group ... they eventually outgrow the 3rd flr (they only had part of the 3rd flr, the other occupant was listed in bldg. directory as a law firm, however the telco closet was on the ibm side and it clearly listed the other occupant as certain 3letter gov. agency) ... and they move out to the vacant former SBC bldg at burlington mall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Bureau_Corporation Jean Sammet and & Nat Rochester don't move out to Burlington. posts mentioning 545 tech sq http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech recent posts mentioning burlington mall location: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#4 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#92 write rings http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#16 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#39 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
