In <listserv%201011050707120034.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 11/05/2010
at 07:07 AM, Robert Birdsall <bsqu...@umich.edu> said:
>What is the underlying technical reason for the restriction?
Shortsightedness. The UADS was designed as a PDS, with member names
containing the userid plus one extension character. That by itself
wasn't so bad, but IBM laid out control blocks with 7 character user
ids and prefixes immediately followed by other fields.
--
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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