In
<77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343c69...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com>,
on 09/02/2010
at 12:17 AM, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> said:
>Native TSO itself had barely crawled out of the primordial ooze in
>the early 1970s.
A lot happened in the middle 1970's.
>And the only thing supported in full-screen mode was editing.
That may have been all that you used, but it was not all that was
supported. I certainly ran non-editing full screen TSO code in the mid
1970's.
>The first time I worked anywhere where I was forced to use ISPF was
>3Q 1987.
Much earlier I wanted SPF when I was forced to run without it.
>Commercial products like Roscoe filled the gap and eased the pain.
It's not my dog.
>And I remember stacking many, many commands into a single
>Superwylbur "line command".
Certainly SuperWylbur® has better[1] editing commands than TSO EDIT or
ISPF/PDF EDIT, but REXX is a cleaner macro language and the ISPF
dialog manager is superior.
[1] The associative range concept was amazingly simple and
amazingly useful.
--
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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