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Several years ago on this list, Jim Mulder(?) posted the NIP logic.
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Subject: Dr. Robert Rannie's diagram of NIP was Re: Diagram of MVS Control
Blocks
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[Default] On 24 Apr 2021 13:21:37 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
techsupp...@quickref.com (Michael A. Shaw) wrote:
>On 4/23/2021 3:43 PM, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote:
>> Many years ago, 1982, I took my first MVS class, MVS Structure and
>> Logic. One of the first handouts our class was given was a spaghetti
>> diagram of MVS control blocks.
>> Unfortunately, I threw mine away in 2016, when I thought my system
>> programming days were over.
>
>I took that same two-week class in Chicago in 1980. The diagram in
>question (as I remember it) was a joke, right? It was impossibly
>complicated with curved lines and arrows and flowchart symbols all over
>it. It was made to generate a chuckle, not teach actual logic flow.
Were there ever any paper copies of Dr. Robert Rannie's diagram of NIP
processing and if so are there any still around?
Clark Morris
>
>I too had a copy once, but it's long gone.
>
>Mike
>
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