Steve
I recall a big meeting in a Victorian hotel[1] near the IBM UK location
which housed the country technical gurus on the occasion of the introduction
of program products[2] from previously not charging for software at all,
Types 1, 2, 3 or 4. I remember only because of the enormous row - led by
Phil Nesbit if anyone remembers him - over the possibility that the
Assembler compiler may not be delivered with the operating system which was
to continue to be free - or "at no additional cost with the hardware". It
may be that the presenter hadn't got this issue correctly specified in his
notes, winged it and winged it the wrong way.
Chris Mason
[1] Would 1970 be the right date?
[2] Didn't I see something recently about IBM getting more than half its
revenue from software these days - or something like that?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Comstock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?
...
Assembler comes, of course; it's not "standard" in the sense
there is no OpenSource, ISO, ANSII Assembler standard; but
it's everywhere on zSeries, and it comes included.
Assembler! The only _real_ language!
...
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
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