Maybe I'm misremembering but I'm sure I was using SPF, not ISPF, in or around 1974 -- and that *was* developed within IBM.
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:17:07 +0000 > From: bi...@mainstar.com > Subject: Re: Set numbers off permanently. > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Native TSO itself had barely crawled out of the primordial ooze in the early > 1970s. By 1975 I was working with the first full-screen editor running under > TSO that I ever did, and it was not developed by IBM. And the only thing > supported in full-screen mode was editing. The first time I worked anywhere > where I was forced to use ISPF was 3Q 1987. Commercial products like Roscoe > filled the gap and eased the pain. And I remember stacking many, many > commands into a single Superwylbur "line command". > > Bill Fairchild > Rocket Software > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Set numbers off permanently. > > In <aanlkti=+hgnuyqzv1xmm+hmmqbdt2ue3fahyaz-xv...@mail.gmail.com>, on > 08/31/2010 > at 08:57 PM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> said: > > >Because ISPF is 1980s technology? > > ITYM 1970's. > > -- > 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