At 11:44 AM 12/3/2005, you wrote:
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:34:45AM -0800, Gus Wirth wrote:
> At 19:13 12/02/2005 -0800, Todd Walton wrote:
> >On 12/2/05, Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> job that abends
> >
> >Oh, wow. Cool word. Cooler still because it's near obvious (in
> >context) what it means. I looked it up anyway. M-W.com doesn't have
> >anything, of course, but Wikipedia and various other sites trawled by
> >Google's define: did.
>
> For those who still don't know: abend means abnormal end. Novell has been
> using that term for at least 15 years since Netware 2.x and maybe even
> earlier.
>
> Gus
>
I was told 20 years ago the abend was an IBM/mainframe term originally.
So it goes waaay back.
ABEND -- I first encountered this working with the old IBM
System/360. This was one of the error codes generated by the
operating system. I can't remember whether it was TOS (Tape OS) or
DOS that first started it. That was circa 1968.
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