ISTR hearing, circa 1967, that ASP had its roots in the 7xxx world,
with a 1440 or some other 14xx series machine(s) used as the
"Attached Support Processors" effectively doing the card and printer
I/O to relieve the main processor(s?) of these I/O intensive tasks.
I also most definitely heard in a presentation in 1967 on HASP
("Houston Automatic SPool" or some such, Shmuel will know) was
initially built by four SEs in IBM's Houston office. The story goes
that they pushed their desks hard together so they sat in two pairs,
facing each other, and thus kept the communication lines as short and
responsive as possible.
Graeme
At 09:38 AM 9/09/2010, you wrote:
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <1792f2.291be9b9.39b92...@aol.com>, on 09/08/2010
at 01:30 PM, Ed Finnell <efinnel...@aol.com> said:
Huh? HASP was the efforts of NASA Houston and came out as Half ASP.
Do you have a citation for that? I never saw the term before I
suggested "HASP is Half ASP" for a project button.
I worked as an operator at the the L.A. Scientific Center in
Westwood (data center on the U.C.L.A campus) when DCS was initially
developed on a 7094 with a 7040 as the support processor (before
that they tried a 1410). Art Walters was one of the leads. I
recall the term "Half ASP" used a couple of times somewhat
sarcastically. I also recall that HASP was already known as a
product (Type III?) out of Houston. This was around 1965.
Walter Rue
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