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In article <3B6647F1...@boutel.co.nz>, br...@boutel.co.nz (Brian 
Boutel) wrote:

> Nick Spalding wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > My Green Card GX20-1703-9 has TS on it.  Anyone know what date the -9
> > represents?
> > --
> 
> Mine is an X20-1703-6, also with TS. No date information, though.
> 
> 
> The Original Bell and Newell gives a reference to a 1964 paper (Falkoff,
> Iverson, and Sussenguth, A Formal Description of System/360 , IBM System
> Journal Vol 3 No 3 pp198-261), so it seems TS dates from the beginning
> of the 360, if not before. Perhaps that paper cites an earlier use.

Not that I can see, but TS is certainly covered in the Formal Description 
(flowchart?) and the tables in that paper.

Perhaps the place to look for an earlier reference is the 7030, which I 
believe was more than just a bigger and better 7090, or even related 
closely to the latter. I worked in 1965 as an SE at a 360/75 account, with 
monthly OS/360 updates and vestigial documentation. My lead SE, who 
formerly worked on a Stretch account, told me that OS/360 owed a lot to 
the Stretch operating system. Not sure whether those were meant to be 
words of comfort, or just shared woe.

Mike Kingston