In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/14/2005
at 10:05 AM, BarryMerrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Historically, SMF records were created as VBS in the original OS/360
>implementation in 1964, because the OS developers only gave the SMF
>component 1000 bytes of the nucleus for buffer space,
> (the PCP nucleus was only 89K total!)
Maybe yours[1] was, but OS/360 was designed for a 32KiB machine and
would IPL on a 64MiB machine. Even our MFT nucleus wasn't that big.
BTW, my recollection is that you needed MFT II or MVT for SMF.
[1] A lot of installation options affected the nucleus size.
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