[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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
