Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)

30 Dec 2005

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 7.  Barring problems, a few hours later, your deck, etc.  will be delivered
 back to your desk with the abend dump that invariably seemed to result.

 What is "abend"?  
 ABnormal END
 Basically, your program crashed for some reason, you could say
 Something like a missing DASD or the wrong volume names could cause it, or
 just an error in programming

 At least, that's what I remember it is, and an abend dump is like a core
 dump or crash dump on your modern system.

Aaah..  Like a SIGSEGV! :)  And you get a memory address which can sometimes 
help locating the problem with the help of your .map file...

...
  If I'm wrong, please don't hesitate to shoot
at the youngster :) 
I'll be the youngsterer...

Cheers,

Bryan

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Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)