25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
11:39 p.m.
From: vintagecoder at aol.com
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 2:55 AM
Thanks for your note, Rich.
This is a wierd one for some reason, mystery surrounds
it. I know people
who remember every CPU model and OS they ran, how much core they had, what
date they got the machine, etc. but nobody seems to remember the details on
when IBM started their current policy of not shipping source or when OCO
was. I guess everyone was so traumatized they blocked it out! All the
confusion and lack of detail is surprising when you consider how much
people remember the details of everything else.
Well, as I noted, the OCO arguments were happening, and successfully fought
off by the customer base, in the early 1980s. At Chicago, we weren't quite
as affected by it until we moved from Amdahl to IBM hardware, so it's not
surprising that I don't remember exactly.
If you want I can ask what people recommend to run on
your 360/40. I know a
few old time sysprogs. I have definitely heard of people running starter
systems with much less than 64K, I just don't know if they were good for
anything except sysgens.
Thanks, I would appreciate that. I'm on the Hercules mailing lists on Yahoo,
and those folks have been quite friendly with their advice, as well.
Rich
(on my laptop in Germany, no .sig in this copy of Outlook)