Barry Merrill wrote: <begin extract> The historic use of VBS was precisely for SMF in OS/360, when the NUC was 86K and SMF want to write 32K logical records. </end extract>
This is accurate enough if 'The' is replaced by 'a'; but VBS has a very much longer history beginning with unformatted FORTRAN II tape I/O on the IBM 704. For its history in an IBM System/360 environment see http://www.idinews.com/history/greenWords.html John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
