At 07:16 AM 8/7/2006, you wrote:
If I had known about that (CICS development), maybe I would have
snipped a wire or two. At that time, I was installing (separate
project) a S/360/40 at different IBM Chicgo customer running FASTER,
which was another, comparable online system that, I believe, was
developed initially by the Kansas City police dept. It lost out to
CICS, which I think was developed originally by a utility company.
Jim
Yes, CICS was a co-development with the Northern Indiana Public
Service Company (NIPSCo). I vaguely remember FASTER from ~1968. Yet
another one around this time was DUCS (the Display Unit Control
System) which, IIRC, ran on DOS rather than on big OS like CICS.
Bob Shair
Open Systems Consulting
Champaign, Illinois
