We used OBS Wylbur in the late 80's and early 90's in the UK (British Aerospace), I have fond memories of it, quirks and all! I believe the main justification was to avoid giving everyone 'resource hungry' TSO userids.
Phil -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd Fuller Sent: 25 February 2010 14:48 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure I used WYLBUR (or maybe SuperWYLBUR) in the late 1970s at a time-sharing company in the Washington DC area. I do not remember the name of the company. Lloyd --- On Thu, 2/25/10, John Kington <john.king...@convergys.com> wrote: > From: John Kington <john.king...@convergys.com> > Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 8:10 AM > >>I suspect he may have meant > ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to > >>WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much about > it. > > > >Did anyone use it other than Stanford? > > WYLBUR was used at University of Cincinnati in the mid 80's > when I was learning to program. Much better for an imperfect > typist like me than the ancient keypunch machines that was > the other alternative. I never heard of it being used in a > commercial environment though. > > Regards, > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 The AXA Winterthur Wealth Management proposition is offered by companies within the AXA UK group of companies. AXA Sun Life Services plc distributes financial products and services for these companies and is issuing this item on their behalf. Details of the companies offering specific products are contained within the related material. AXA Sun Life Services plc is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a company limited by shares, registered in England No. 3424940, registered office: 5 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1AD. As part of our commitment to quality service, telephone calls will be recorded ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
