20 Aug
2008
20 Aug
'08
1:11 p.m.
I have sitting here in front of me a book, "Assembler for COBOL Programmers",
by one Hank Murphy. "MVS" and "VM" also appear on the cover.
Copyright date
is 1991. ISBN and other whatnot or more details available on request.
I have *no* interest in this at all. Cover my postage and maybe a little
extra would be nice, and you can take it off my hands.
Feel free to forward this post to other places where there might be some
interest...
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2:02 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 20 Aug 2008 at 13:11, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Hey! That's *my* subtitle!
Peace... Sridhar
P.S. Sridhar Ayengar, Poughkeepsie, NY.
I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL Programmers",
by one Hank Murphy.
Roy, is there a subtitle, such as "The Nightmare from Poughkeepsie?"
:-) 
2:14 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Hey! That's *my* subtitle!
Peace... Sridhar
P.S. Sridhar Ayengar, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Another example of why I love topic drift.
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I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL
Programmers", by one Hank Murphy.
Roy, is there a subtitle, such as "The Nightmare from Poughkeepsie?"
:-)
4:12 p.m.
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 14:02, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 20 Aug 2008 at 13:11, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Hey! That's *my* subtitle! I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL
Programmers", by one Hank Murphy.
Roy, is there a subtitle, such as "The Nightmare from Poughkeepsie?"
:-) Peace... Sridhar
P.S. Sridhar Ayengar, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Did _you_ tell him where the book was going? *I* didn't mention it... :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
4:07 p.m.
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:34, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 20 Aug 2008 at 13:11, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Nah, not other than what I posted about VMS and whatever that other thing was
on there... :-)
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL
Programmers", by one Hank Murphy.
Roy, is there a subtitle, such as "The Nightmare from Poughkeepsie?"
:-)
4:13 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:34, Chuck Guzis wrote:
MVS != VM != VMS 8;-)
Peace... Sridhar
On 20 Aug 2008 at 13:11, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Nah, not other than what I posted about VMS and whatever that other thing was
on there... :-) I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL
Programmers", by one Hank Murphy.
Roy, is there a subtitle, such as "The
Nightmare from Poughkeepsie?"
:-)
4:16 p.m.
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 16:13, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Ok, so my memory is fuzzy about such stuff, particularly when it's acronyms
that I don't ordinarily use! That and the fact that it's already in the
envelope and I didn't feel like un-doing it... :-)
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:34, Chuck Guzis
wrote:
MVS != VM != VMS 8;-) On 20 Aug 2008 at 13:11, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Nah, not other than what I posted about VMS and whatever that other
thing was on there... :-) I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL
Programmers", by one Hank Murphy.
Roy, is there a subtitle, such as "The Nightmare from Poughkeepsie?"
:-)
4 p.m.
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:11, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL
Programmers", by one Hank Murphy. "MVS" and "VM" also appear on
the cover.
Copyright date is 1991. ISBN and other whatnot or more details available
on request.
Spoken for...
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
4:20 p.m.
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL Programmers",
by one Hank Murphy. "MVS" and "VM" also appear on the cover.
Copyright date
is 1991. ISBN and other whatnot or more details available on request.
Is it about intel x86 assembly language, or mainframe (360?) assembler?
4:27 p.m.
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 16:20, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I am of the impression that it's about mainframe stuff. It's already stuffed
into an envelope so I can't dig into it any further, you'll have to ask
Sridhar. :-)
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL
Programmers", by one Hank Murphy. "MVS" and "VM" also appear on
the
cover. Copyright date is 1991. ISBN and other whatnot or more details
available on request.
Is it about intel x86 assembly language, or mainframe (360?) assembler? 
4:43 p.m.
New subject: Book offer - cuba
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I am of the impression that it's about mainframe
stuff. It's already stuffed
into an envelope so I can't dig into it any further, you'll have to ask
Sridhar. :-)
I can imagine his day opening it ... INTEL 8086 ... BLAH!
PS: this offer is hijacked to umm cuba.
5:25 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
My guess would be 370 (or even 370-XA) assembler.
Peace... Sridhar
I have sitting here in front of me a book,
"Assembler for COBOL Programmers",
by one Hank Murphy. "MVS" and "VM" also appear on the cover.
Copyright date
is 1991. ISBN and other whatnot or more details available on request.
Is it about intel x86 assembly language, or mainframe (360?) assembler? 
21 Aug
21 Aug
3:34 p.m.
I have sitting
here in front of me a book, "Assembler for COBOL Programmers",
by one Hank Murphy. "MVS" and "VM" also appear on the cover.
Copyright date
is 1991. ISBN and other whatnot or more details available on request.
Is it about intel x86 assembly language, or mainframe (360?) assembler? 
22 Aug
22 Aug
4:11 a.m.
Philip Belben wrote:
MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) and VM (Virtual Machine) were S/370
things, iirc, not S/360. (And certainly not 80x86!) In fact I think
MVS needed something quite big like a 3081 to run it. 370/XA?
Somewhere, years ago, I got the impression that VM started as an internal
product during 360 development to allow multiple software development teams to
have their 'own' machine without having to supply all of them with real
hardware, and then found it's way out into customer use. (.. vague memory, so
don't take it as too strong an assertion).
I have
sitting here in front of me a book, "Assembler for COBOL Programmers",
by one Hank Murphy. "MVS" and "VM" also appear on the cover.
Copyright date
is 1991. ISBN and other whatnot or more details available on request.
Is it about intel x86 assembly language, or mainframe (360?) assembler?
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