30 Oct
2015
30 Oct
'15
9:55 a.m.
On 10/30/2015 10:38 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
There was no operating system, just a batch stream of
one job at a
time. All I/O was via a 1401 for both input and output.
IBSYS and/or FMS don't qualify as operating systems? The usage of the
1401 to do unit record I/O was the original application of the term
"SPOOL". Many use the term today, uncapitalized, without realizing that
it's an acronym.
--Chuck