In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>, on 12/02/2009 at 07:49 AM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said:
>What! You don't fondly remember the joys of running a Stage 1 / Stage 2 >sysgen? Not in 1960. >Or doing an EDT gen by "throwing away" jobs and steps from the Stage 2? What was wrong with doing a normal I/O gen? >HCD makes that "so easy a caveman can do it" (sm). Then why are there so many HCD questions here? >That was when "men were men" and grrls weren't allowed into the >sanctified areas of DP. It may have been when men were men and sheep were scared, but I believe that Gracie got into the business well before I did. I'm not sure whether it is fair to cite Ada Countess Lovelace, who was also before my time. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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