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.


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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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.

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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.

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