10 Feb
2006
10 Feb
'06
4:30 p.m.
Johnny Billquist wrote:
RSTS/E in late versions use MOVC if it exists, to move
data around in
the kernel. RSX never use CIS in the kernel.
Neither FORTRAN IV, FORTRAN 77, PDP-11, nor BASIC+2 uses CIS. They
will all use FPP however, if it exists. FORTRAN IV can also use FIS,
if I remember right.
I don't think DIBOL uses CIS, but I'm not entirely sure. COBOL uses
CIS if it exists, however.
From what I remember, I believe that dibol requires it. I don't think it
can run without it. Had a customer with an 11/24(?) running a
commercial Dibol accounting applications. That software didn't use
RMS because "it was too slow".
Spend a lot of time repairing the database, fixing slow searches
(1/2 hour to check if a new PO number was already in use), and
data fields that were too small (max $99,999.99 in the General Ledger).
Modified all programs to use an "include" instead of having
the file layouts hard coded into every program, with weird extra
add-on programs to update the layouts.
When the number of deleted records in the customer file hit a
certain limit, it automagically resequenced it, using the
assumption that the key file and the data file were in the same order.
They wern't.