OCO was a gradual infestation. DF/DS, DF/EF (15 % discount on plasma), MVS/SE, MVS/SP and, as I recall, DFP, preceded it, and the was still microfiche for, e.g., TSO/E, long after OCO had started.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Tom Marchant <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from? On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:50:00 +0000, David Spiegel wrote: >I disagree. OCO, IIRC, started in 1983. You might be right, I can't remember. I was certainly using microfiche into the '80s. However, MVS as a program product was a few years before 1983. -- Tom Marchant > >On 2018-11-29 09:18, Tom Marchant wrote: >> 1983 was several years after IBM went OCO. >> >> That, in turn was several years after they started to license and charge for >> some software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
