Absolutely right, Alan. That's what I get for wading through my emails from the
top (most recent). I was composing a thread-closing post based on his reply
when I saw your note.
Sir Lynn does us amateur VM historians a great service with his encyclopedic
records and recall. Not to mention
Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com said:
Surely Sir Lynn would know off the top of his head, and have ALL the gory
details in his astonishingly complete personal records.
I'm definitely no substitute for Sir Lynn, but I remember DCSS and DMKSNT in
VM/370 Release 3 PLC 8, which is where I
Jeff, yours may be the earliest reference to saved segments so far. Is the
named segment you mention the same concept? That would push implementation of
the idea back into the CP/67 days.
-Chip-
On 7/13/09 20:15 Jeff Savit said:
I was porting
the CP/67 port of LISP/MTS to VM/370, and
On Tuesday, 07/14/2009 at 12:12 EDT, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote:
Jeff, yours may be the earliest reference to saved segments so far. Is
the
named segment you mention the same concept? That would push
implementation of
the idea back into the CP/67 days.
I thought Sir Lynn's posts on
Though I'm not sure if it was
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five
I suspect that
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
... when shared segments were implemented in VM.
It seems to me that it predated the VM/370 SEPP/BSEPP days when I started, but
there's
Chip Davis wrote:
... when shared segments were implemented in VM.
It seems to me that it predated the VM/370 SEPP/BSEPP days when I
started, but there's been many a synapse lost since then.
VM/370 R6 does have DCSS (DisContiguous Shared Segments IIRC) - Even
without SEPP or BSEPP.
But
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote:
Chip Davis wrote:
... when shared segments were implemented in VM.
It seems to me that it predated the VM/370 SEPP/BSEPP days when I started,
but there's been many a synapse lost since then.
VM/370 R6 does have DCSS
P S wrote:
DCSS = DisContiguous *SAVED* Segment. They aren't necessarily shared.
Doh ! Of course ! thanks for the correction
--Ivan
Oh, I vividly remember the joys of DMKSNT and managing DCSSes, and of trying to
squeeze everything below the 16Meg line yet above the VMSIZE. It seemed that
the very users who needed access to the most packages also had to have the
largest VMs.
Things are *MUCH* better now that nearly
Chip Davis wrote:
Oh, I vividly remember the joys of DMKSNT and managing DCSSes, and of
trying to squeeze everything below the 16Meg line yet above the
VMSIZE. It seemed that the very users who needed access to the most
packages also had to have the largest VMs.
Things are *MUCH* better now
On: Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 04:01:34PM +,Chip Davis Wrote:
I would think it would have been sometime in the early 70's, so I guess
it might have been in the first release of VM/370, but I'm having trouble
tracking it down.
Caution; going on rusty memory here but ISTR that CP-67 had the
complete personal records.
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates.
(Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.)
- Original Message -
From: Chip Davis [c...@aresti.com]
Sent: 07/12/2009 04:01 PM GMT
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: VM history question
Oh, I vividly remember the joys
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