On 05/26/2016 06:51 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> Apart from that, it's not credible for another reason. CDC Cyber
> operating systems always spooled printer output to disk (unlike
> OS/360 which did it in some variants but not others -- notably not
> OS/360 PCP which I used since our 360/44 wasn't big enough to do
> better). So a call to DMP would run only long enough do perform the
> formatting of whatever memory was being dumped, writing the resulting
> text to the disk file named "OUTPUT" for the invoking process
> ("control point").
It *is* possible for a job to REQUEST access to an online printer under
both SCOPE and KRONOS. But it requires operator intervention, IIRC.
Deadstart (postmortem) dumps, of course, didn't use any intermediate
programs--they dumped directly to the printer. IIRC, you could also
dump to tape.
--Chuck
