13 Jul
2009
13 Jul
'09
12:48 p.m.
On 13 Jul 2009 at 4:17, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I usually accept any IBM mainframe-related manuals I
can lay my hands
on. Yes, I'd love to have them, if you have spares.
No spares, but what am I going to do with S/360 manuals? Especially
stuff like "COBOL DASD macros", written for a time when the DOS COBOL
didn't support anything but sequential file access (it'd parse the
statements, but not generate any code)--you had to write and link in
an assembly-code module to do the work. A curiosity, for certain,
but without software or a platform to run it on, worthless to me.
I'll put you on my next "bookshelf cleanup" list.
--Chuck