🚀 go-pugleaf

Anne & Lynn Wheeler <ly...@garlic.com> wrote:
> Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> writes:
>> Exactly. Might be worth recounting this story (possibly a repeat, but...)
>> 
>> About 15 years ago I had a need for a particular program on a PC. It was 
>> a one-off, and it had to be in BASIC, as the machine wasn't connected to 
>> anything else - all I could do was move small files using INTERLNK/
>> INTERSVR (remember those?)
>> 
>> I searched the Internet and found an ideal program. I downloaded it, 
>> transferred it to the PC and it did exactly what I wanted.
>> 
>> Being me, I had a look at the source code. The more I looked at it, the 
>> more mystified I became by the style of programming. It was how I might 
>> have written it.
>> 
>> Then it hit me. I *had* written it, a further 15 years before. I had sent 
>> it to various people but not bothered keeping a copy. It had come back to 
>> me!
> 
> former co-worker at science center and research was responsible for the
> internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the
> beginning until sometime mid-80s) ... past posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
> which was also used for the corporate sponsored university network
> (also larger than arpanet/internet for a time) some past posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
> 
> in the 80s, he had left IBM and was working for company that did a lot
> of real-time stuff and he was working with major real-time system and
> noticed code that he thot was familiar. The supervisor contained module
> that was seemed same as his RSCS/VNET MSUP routine (from 15yrs
> earlier), a nearly line-for-line translation from 360 assembler to
> C, included retaining the original comments. past refs
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#32 "The Elements of Programming Style"
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#34 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
> 
> His RSCS/VNET MSUP dates back to the 60s, before 23JUNE1969 unbundling
> and starting to separately charge for lots of stuff, including software
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundling
> 
> after the unbundling announce, IBM had internal people going back and
> adding "COPYRIGHT" statements to the front of every source routine.
> example from long ago and far away:
> 
> 
> *********************************************************************** 00002000
> ***                                                                 *** 00003000
> ***           5748-XE1 - COPYRIGHT IBM CORPORATION - 1978, 1979     *** 00004000
> ***           LICENSED MATERIAL - PROGRAM PROPERTY OF IBM           *** 00005000
> ***           REFER TO COPYRIGHT INSTRUCTIONS:  FORM G120-2083      *** 00006000
> ***                                                                 *** 00007000
> *********************************************************************** 00008000

I'll bet that was a fun job. Was it punishment for salesmen who didn't make
quota?

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Pete