The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
gahe...@gmail.com (George Henke) writes: > "I remember it well" > > I did not arrive on the scene at POK (bldg #10, I think, Global Services) > until late, and then only as an outsider consultant (only a Class "B" > integrator, not a Class "A" developer like yourself). > > But I remember the war stories I heard there, even then, of how the MVS > group had tried to do in VM, until top management found out somehow that > the MVS group was quietly using (needed) VM to test MVS. > > And I remember HONE, but I did not know it was driven by VM. I remember it > as maybe a system to pose technical questions to. > > And then, of course, there was PROFS, IBM's own precursor to email. It had > it all including an organization chart. > > "Those were the days" > > Thank you. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#58 LPARs: More or Less? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#59 LPARs: More or Less? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#60 LPARs: More or Less? one of my hobbies was building production systems with large number of enhancements for internal product distribution. one of the locations I supported was HONE from cp67 thru vm370 and later days. As relatively new hire at the science center ... one of my early overseas trips was move of EMEA hdqtrs to Paris ... and helping to install HONE clone. As HONE clones proliferated around the world ... I got to do some number of the installs. misc old email mentioning HONE http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hone there is some ambivalence about PROFS. for instance, the core email processing code in PROFS had been picked up a very early copy of email application called VMSG. when VMSG author offered to the PROFS group to provide them with a significantly enhanced version; the PROFS group attempted to get the person fired. It was eventually all made moot ... while the PROFS group may have thot they had sanitized the code to remove evidenice of its origins ... the VMSG author demonstrated that every PROFS email carried his initials in the comment section of (normally undisplayed) network control field. After that, the VMSG source was restricted to just the author and two other people. PROFS also picked up the online telephone book facility that Jim Gray and I had originally done. This is old post about the celebration at Berkeley celebrating Jim: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#50 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#51 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#27 Father Of Financial Dataprocessing in the webcase audio file of the event ... the tandem person on one of the panels talks about Jim doing online telephone book for the corporation. Shortly later, I get up and talk about Jim and I had earlier done an online telephone book at IBM. -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
