28 Feb
2005
28 Feb
'05
9:48 p.m.
From: "Tore S Bekkedal" <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>
Possibly for OS/360 (which I never used), but certainly not for DOS. When I
was an operator, we used to turn JCL cards around, so we could see cards
like
// EXEC TAPEDUMP TNIRP CEXE //
Nico
>
> That was the same for IBM (DOS) Assembler, Cobol (73-80) and RPG-II
(column
1-5 IIRC).
Nico
JCL too. It had something to do with how the 701(!) read in data, into
two 36-bit words... I think most S/360 languages did it this way.