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)
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