I wasn't there, but prior to TSO, there weren't any interactive users to send 
messages to. What purpose would a SYS!.BRODCAST serve in a card reader era?

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> Subject: Re: JES2 Exit 16 (was Re: how to keep messages in the
> sys1.broadcast for ever)
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> On 2017-06-29, at 13:03, J R wrote:
> 
> > The original API for dynamic allocation was DAIR.
> >
> ISTR "IKJDAIR".  Does this imply TSO is a requisite?  This could have been
> onerous in an era when TSO was not bundled, or even if DAIR could be used
> only under the TMP.
> 
> >> On Jun 29, 2017, at 13:13, John McKown wrote:
> >>
> >> ​This originated back is MVT days. MVT did not really have an API for
> >> dynamic allocation. The data set was "fake opened" (i.e. code other
> >> than OPEN found the DSN & extents, and built an "open" DCB and
> >> associated DEB.)​
> 
> -- gil
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