Seymour, The assembler was SPPS. Too close to the stats package name SPSS.
I was working at a DOS/VSE shop in England in 1983 and they had COBOL and SPPS on their IBM cash registers. I had neither mainframe COBOL nor SPPS skills but I'd written a whole bunch of Microfocus COBOL on CP/M micros. I convinced them that I could do mainframe COBOL, which wasn't that difficult. When I looked at the SPPS code, it was macro Assembler, so that was the start of a short time with same. A few years later I found myself in Melbourne, Australia working for a department store. They also had 3651 store controllers and 36.. POS terminals (point of sale LOL). The 3651 implemented a local area network before I'd seen what we know now as LAN. Connected to a FEP, it was quite smart in its day. The PC killed off this technology and within a few years most of this type of kit was on the scrap heap. On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 6:46 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought the macros were part of CONCEPT 14? > > CONCEPT 14 (http://skycoast.us/pscott/software/mvs/c14/c14-0000.html) > could be what I was thinking of. It's the basis for the macro package in > the HLASM Toolkit. > > The macro package I actually used was called PROC. > > > http://skycoast.us/pscott/software/mvs/c14/c14-0000.html > > The only SPSS I ever heard of was Statistical Package for the Social > Sciences, and it didn't look like assembler. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Wayne Bickerdike [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 4:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: C > > I thought the macros were part of CONCEPT 14? I do remember working on IBM > 3684 point of sale systems between 1982 and 1986. They were programmed > using an Asembler like language called SPSS II, it had IF THEN ELSE and > other macros. > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 03:36 Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Those macros were not part of the assembler. As I recall there was a > > popular macro package called CONCEPT 101 (sp?) floating around, and > another > > package called PROC, but they didn't come from IBM. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > > of Mike Schwab [[email protected]] > > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:25 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: C > > > > I was doing an internship in the Chicago area during the summer of > > 1984. They were using an assembler with IF macros. > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:11 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > HLASM in 1980? Not before June 1992. I assume that you were using XF > and > > H, possibly with the SLAC mods on the latter (thank you, Greg and John.) > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > > > ________________________________________ > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on > > behalf of Donald Blake [[email protected]] > > > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:51 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: C > > > > > > I took my first C course in 1980. The text was the original *The C > > > programming Language* by Kerrigan and Richie, which I still have on my > > > shelf, The text is copyright 1978. That's 42 years ago. I was an IBM HL > > > Assembler programmer at the time. BTW ... we still were using IFOX00 at > > the > > > time as well. > > > > > > > Hey, it's not politically correct to point out how old C is. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) 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