Shmuel, The conjecture may be mine. The operating system was *not* DOS (VSE) or VM. I'm pretty sure it was the usual "smaller" OS of the time, VS1 was it mot? I'm pretty sure I had to fix up some code at the object level because the source was a CICS transaction in PL/1 and using REP cards was the only way I could get at the code I could see was wrong when the module size exceeded 32K. It was 1973 and it was September.
I can pin the month down to September because the head of the family I was taken to see, a family planning to emigrate to Israel, so it was a somewhat surreptitious visit, joked once we were safely in his flat (apartment) that I should wait until later in the year than September to be wearing a sheepskin coat in Moscow. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Sunday, 23 April, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/18/2006 > at 10:33 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >There seems to be conjecture that it was an early OS (MVT/MVT) that > >accommodated them. And in some past time was taken out of the OS. > > IMHO the change was a good thing. It was too easy to shoot yourself > in the foot with '02'x REP, and AMASPZAP is also more user friendly. > > -- > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
