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OK, let's REALLY dig back there. There's an incident in my early
years which I remember imperfectly; maybe someone can recognize
the context.

Back in summer 1970 I was working for the Ministry of Technology
in London, England (shortly before it was abolished). I was
involved in some horrendous econometric input-output modelling,
which I carried on using an arcane matrix manipulatioon package.
This thing ran on the IBM London Data Centre systems. The
configuration, as I remember it, was a 360/50 running MFT acting
as a front end (via ASP) to a 360/65 which was running PCP (Primary
Control Program - a simple single-tasking OS). The 360/65
had no peripherals, only a channel attach to the 360/50. IPL
involved downloading the OS over this channel link.

Obviously the software was somewhat primitive, especially the
scheduler. One day, the 360/50 spooler detected that the 360/65
was up an running, and transferred the image of my Fortran app
over the channel. Unfortunately, PCP had not yet finished(?) loading.
The resulting slew of error messages brought out every IBM tech support
person to gloat over the listing, which was framed in the manager's
office.

Did I dream all this? Nobody I know will admit to any
knowledge of ASP, PCP or such things?

Geoff

Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (ge...@East.Sun.COM)
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