Shmuel:

That was a little bit before my time. Is there a possibility you could give a 
short paragraph or so on a stage 1  or (whatever it was called became a 
system), please?

Thanks.

Ed



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From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net>
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In <4ebdc2c1.3080...@valley.net>, on 11/11/2011
   at 07:50 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <gerh...@valley.net> said:

>When IBM first released the System 360, all software was made 
>available in source form, in addition to the normal  distributions of
>object or load module format.

For some programs it was source code only; you had to compile as part
of the installation.

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