On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:37:31 +0800, Timothy Sipples <timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >Before that there was the IBM 3838 Array Processor which ran (eventually) >the Vector Processing Subsystem (VPSS)/XA. I think the 3838 debuted in 1976 >or 1977. Your VPSS stuff could run on the VFs using (what else) VPSS/VF. >VPSS/XA was IBM Program Number 5665-301. VPS/XA also supported FORTRAN, at >least. > For what its worth, the SUBSYS= support on the DD statement was invented by Barry Goldstein and myself to support the 3838. It allowed FORTRAN I/O to be redirected to VPSS for passing arrays into and out of the 3838. (The 3838 looked like a tape device to FORTRAN). Of course, many of you have found other uses for SUBSYS= since then... W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
