Skip Robinson wrote: > My favorite is still ISPF. It's predecessor, SPF, expressly stood for > Structured Programming Facility. Not content merely to add Interactive, the > Hot Button Brigade (tech savvy cousins of the Political Correctness Police) > also re-engineered 'SP' to System Productivity.
there is GML (precursor to sgml, html, xml, etc) .... which was invented at the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech in 1969 by three people, "G", "M", and "L". it then became a task to come up with "genarlized markup language" to correspond with the initials of the three last names http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sgml then there is CAS ... the initials for the person at the science center that was doing a lot of fine-grain SMP locking work on cp/67 and invented a new multiprocessing syncronization instruction. It was then necessary to come up with "compare-and-swap" to go along with his initials. trying to get CAS into 370 architecture ... the 370 architecture group in POK said that it wasn't possible to justify an multiprocessing-specific instruction for 370 so it would be necessary to invent a use for the instruction in non-multiprocessing environment ... thus was born the programming notes on how to use CAS by multi-threaded applications (whether they were running on uniprocessor or multiprocessor). Also in getting CAS into 370 ... both a word and double word version was defined so the mnemonic got changed from CAS to CS and CDS (it was going to be the only mnemonic that i know of that started out as somebody's initials) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp and then of course there is SCIDS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#5 Definition of SHARE & SCIDS Requested http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#6 Definition of SHARE & SCIDS Requested ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
