In <pine.lnx.4.64.1202022034530.30...@tau.ceti.pl>, on 02/02/2012
at 10:45 PM, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> said:
>Every time I learn something about MVS or z, I don't do
>something else.
I didn't mean that learning about MVS was a lot of work, but rather
that enhancing a large program like gcc was a lot of work. Learning
the MVS side of things is just the beginning.
>So far, I can explain with some confidence what HLASM abbreviation
>stands for (not sure about "M", still working on it).
High Level ASseMbler.
>CFT - is it cross file transfer?
Copious Free time. Of course, at one time I would have read CFT as
Cray ForTran ;-)
It's not specific to z or even IBM, but if you google for "jargon
file" you will find expansions of a lot of the alphabet soup used on
the Internet.
--
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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