On 12/21/2011 08:22 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Does anybody have a timeline of the various releases of Structured Programming
Facility, System Productivity Facility, Interactive System Productivity
Facility and ISPF/Program Development Facility?
Will this link helps you here?
http://www.planetmvs.com/spfeditor/ispfhist.txt
Some background of TSO and ISPF (missing good citations... :-( ) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Sharing_Option
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPF
Apparently TSO is not an 'option' in MVS, if I understand these links
correctly, so ISPF came with MVS in 1974.
I admit I may be grossly wrong. Feel free to correct me, please.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS
Of course I looked and smelled around IBM Archives, but ...
... IBM's own IBM Archives focuses mostly on hardware and thousand and one (odd
:-D ) inventions...
HTH!
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
ISPF, or the former SPF did not come with TSO. If you look at the list
before ISPF there was SPF. After IBM made it an official product that
cost, they split SPF into two different parts ISPF and ISPF/PDF. The
ISPF did the screen handeling and the ISPF/PDF gave features like browse
and edit.
And TSO came with it's predecessor MVT as part of the operating system.
At one time you could have MVT or MVS without TSO via a sysgen.
Scott
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