With your persistence in demanding that your interpretation is the ONLY correct grammar, would not An historic have been a better suggestion?
And I disagree, since the "THE" was qualified by "for SMF in OS/360" and not a reference to the earlier and different use in FORTRAN. I actually accomplish sharing information in my posts. Yours seem to exist only to inflate your ego. Barry -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW: I/O Optimization 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
