It could be that the spooler was really a resident writer. I was just a newby programmer, and know that we were told that requiring more than a certain amount of memory required a major operations change and was frowned on.
It was definitely not DOS/360. It was OS/360 and used JCL with DCBs, etc, not the DOS/360 stuff. Lloyd ----- Original Message ---- From: John Gilmore <johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, March 1, 2012 4:09:02 PM Subject: Re: TINC? Shmuel/Seymour wrote: <begin extract> NFW. There was only a single partition on PCP. Based on the model I'd guess that you were running DOS/360. </end extract> and it is correct, albeit in a Pickwickian sense, that OS/PCP "had only a single partition"; but it did support both transient and resident readers and writers; there were even some very primitive to-2311-DASD RYO spoolers in use; and at this remove Lloyd Fuller's confusion may be only a terminological one. Still, I too guess that he may have been using DOS. --jg On 3/1/12, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > In <1330520469.27305.yahoomai...@web180907.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, on > 02/29/2012 > at 05:01 AM, Lloyd Fuller <leful...@sbcglobal.net> said: > >>No. When we used PCP on the Model 40 with 64K. We had a single job >>partition and, most of the time, a spool partition. > > NFW. There was only a single partition on PCP. Based on the model I'd > guess that you were running DOS/360. > >>It was a very simple partition (like 10K or so) that ran the 1401 > > What are you trying to say? The 1401 was a computer, not a program. If > you meant that you ran the 1401 Emulator program, that confirms that > it was DOS. > >>If we needed more memory for a specific purpose, we would reipl >>from a different pack and bring up OS360 with just the program >>partition. > > Another sign that you were not running OS/360; on an OS/360 system > with multiple partitions you can amalgamated partitions with the > DEFINE command; you don't need to re-IPL. > > -- > 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) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
