[email protected] (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> back before OCO (object code only) enormous amounts of innovation and
> new stuff was done by customers and/or ibm support people onsite at
> customer accounts ... which then morphs into IBM products ... CICS, IMS,
> HASP, ASP, etc.  The joke was that products were *developed* at customer
> sites and then turned over to development groups for maintenance and
> support. Only focusing on the next quarter basically orientates to
> static environment with little innovation or change.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#99 TSO Test does not support 65-bit 
debugging?
and
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software

In Aug1976, Tymshare started offering its CMS-based online computer
conferencing to SHARE for free (as VMSHARE), archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
One of the entries mentioning "OCO"
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/read?fn=SES&ft=PROB&line=401

from above:

After all, OCO and SES are nothing but capricious actions of IBM that
hinder our ability to provide good IBM-BASED computing for our users.

... snip ...

I had set up process with Tymshare to get regular copy of all the
VMSHARE files ... for putting up on internal IBM systems and network,
including the world-wide sales&marketing online HONE system. One of
the big initial hurdles was getting around legal worried about
customer information contaminating IBM employees.

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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