I have spent the last two days wondering if I should post this to probably
the most logical thinkers in the world.. Bug chasing, writing low level
code etc requires a wee bit of logic!
I watched the evening news here in Australia, and the situation
certainly seems to be worsening. If it wasn't so
I actually spoke to Bill Gates way back around 1988 when he was in
Melbourne Australia, and said that I didn't think that C was a safe
language, like PL/I, COBOL, even ASM because it is SO easy to overwrite
storage that shouldn't be. And that C Strings were extraordinarily slow
compared with any ma
Can we bring back OS/2?
Clem.
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM Joe Monk <
05971158733e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> More to the point, the issue is not Windows, but the abuse of Windows.
> Example: requiring administrator rights to do ordinary, everyday tasks.
>
> This led to "scr
That is my recollection, too. MVS is when SVC99 appeared.
Recently, I was looking at the source code for IEHMOVE to allow IEHMOVE to
run under Hercules, and it uses DAIR.
I think RESTORE was mentioned too, but I am not 100%. I didn't attempt to
find out any more.
Clem Clarke
On Tue, May 28, 2
My first computer was a 1902 in Melbourne Australia.
I then went to Shell Oil and worked on an English Electric Leo.
Then an IBM 65 arrived.
And I wrote the first version of Jol to replace JCL in about 1968 or 1969
in PL/1 and converted it Assembler to run in a 16K (?) Partition.
The ICL 1902 w
. Or use Jol itself.
See CBT Tape number 839. http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT839.zip
Clement Clarke
Scott Ford wrote:
John, I agree , I understand from a system integrity point of view
why going from ac(0) to ac(1) is dangerous and understand why the
customers ask the questions, boy
