-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Brick Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 1:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history
You have also missed some small relatively insignificant OS's. TPS (Tape Programming System) DPS (Disk Programming System) BPS (Basic Programming System although it might have been CPS for Card ) These all run on the System360/20 machines. <snip> CPS Card Processing System (I think that was the name - it's only been a few years). And somebody walked off with my original Yellow card (now a booklet if IBM will even ship it). Yes, the S/360-20 had a Yellow card, not a Green Card. My first paying job in data processing was on a S/360-20 (8K, with the I/O & Compute feature!) with 4 tape drives, a 2501, a 1442, a slide bar printer (just can't remember the model). And we had 2 072 card sorters, 026 punches, 129 punch/verifiers, and some other things I just can't remember model numbers for and for which I just couldn't wrap my head around programming (plug boards). I had come from a college environment where we had a S/360-30 with 2314 disk drives, so I was rather shocked to see SYSRES on a tape for when we ran TPS. We had 8K and we ran payroll for a few fairly large companies (we were a circus bureau) among other accounting stuff. Let's see you do that today on a PC (which probably has more horse power, and I/O speeds) with less than 256MB! [Can you say, code bloat?] And for a final laugh, we did it all with RPG (not RPG-II) or BAL IFF it couldn't fit in memory as RPG!!! Later, Steve.T ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
