DUMPRX was one of the slickest tools available for VM sysprogs in the '80s. With the overall level of code quality at that time, it was really needed. I have always thought that the only reason it wasn't included in the product was the NIH mentality that was common in IBM at that time in Endicott and Kingston.

Jim

At 09:50 PM 7/10/2006, you wrote:


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I wrote a debug tool in REX(X) called DUMPRX that eventually was
used extensively internally and at one point by nearly all the (vm/cms)
field support people
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#dumprx

that had some amount of symbolic capability

Jim Bohnsack
Cornell Univ.
(607) 255-1760

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