26 May
2016
26 May
'16
1:10 p.m.
On 05/26/2016 06:51 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Apart from that, it's not credible for another
reason. CDC Cyber
operating systems always spooled printer output to disk (unlike
OS/360 which did it in some variants but not others -- notably not
OS/360 PCP which I used since our 360/44 wasn't big enough to do
better). So a call to DMP would run only long enough do perform the
formatting of whatever memory was being dumped, writing the resulting
text to the disk file named "OUTPUT" for the invoking process
("control point").
It *is* possible for a job to REQUEST access to an online printer under
both SCOPE and KRONOS. But it requires operator intervention, IIRC.
Deadstart (postmortem) dumps, of course, didn't use any intermediate
programs--they dumped directly to the printer. IIRC, you could also
dump to tape.
--Chuck