Roscoe was one address space so everything was there when you logged in. Much like using a CICS editor.
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 8:15 PM Leonard D Woren <ibm-main...@ldworen.net> wrote: > > Bill Johnson wrote on 9/7/2023 1:05 PM: > > We used to use ROSCOE at a small shop in the 80’s because it used less > > resources. I hated it. > > ROSCOE was one of a collection of TSO alternatives, which were all > junk. TONE, ACEP, Wylbur, maybe more that I don't remember. They all > had 1 two-pronged design goal: except for Wylbur, a PITA in its own > category, allow TSO-like online use without the perceived overhead of > TSO, and also, they would run on systems other than MVS. > > The reason the resource utilization of all of those was lower than TSO > is that it took longer for programmers to get their work done, so the > resource utilization was spread out over more elapsed time, lowering > the apparent resources used in a given elapsed time period, but also > lowering productivity. Something beancounters generally don't factor > because they don't understand it. They liked the fact that a given > set of hardware could support 50 (choose your poison from above) > online users while TSO could support only 25. > > Fortunately, we're way past hardware costing more than people. > > > /Leonard > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
