On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 5:31 AM René Jansen <rvjan...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi Leslie, > > I am sure you mean 1984. And then there was still only EXECIO. I have to > look up when VM/CMS got stream; TSO never had it until now, unless we > installed a library. > I will try to find out the timeline. > VM/CMS got it 1988, at the earliest. Rick > > best regards, > > René. > > > > On 10 Feb 2021, at 05:45, J Leslie Turriff <jlturr...@mail.com> wrote: > > > > On 2021-02-09 19:02:12 Michael Lueck wrote: > >>> Any ideas on how this was meant to be when it was designed? > >> > >> I never claim to be the best expert at REXX history, however... > >> > >> On Mainframe, I believe either the Stream concept came much later or > still > >> is not there at all. > > > > The file I/O functions [stream(), charin(), charout(), chars(), > linein(), lineout(), > > lines()] have been in the language since at least when I first used > VM/CMS in ~1974. > > They could operate on CMS minidisk, Shared File System*, or Byte File > System* files; > > sockets capabilities came later when a TCP/IP stack was added to VM. In > MVS Rexx could > > use these functions to do I/O to QSAM, Open Edition or Unix System > Services files. > > See https://www.vm.ibm.com/library/640pdfs/64622201.pdf Chapter > 9: Input and Output, for > > example. > > > > Leslie > > > > > > -- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Oorexx-devel mailing list > > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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