Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

[Fred Cisin]

>> I used to have a tiny portable manual card punch.
>> An acquaintance used it to punch /* in the first two columns of his
>> punchcard based utility bills.   (those characters have special meaning
>> to 360 JCL.  They have multiple punches per column, so it required
>> making a punch, then backspacing to make the other punch(es))

On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> /* = end of data set
> /& = end of job
> One wonders how a S/360 "C" compiler might deal with this. Preceding it
> with a space might do the trick.

Yes, it would, but how would you get 100% compliance wiht no mistakes from 
PROGRAMMERS?

A 360 s'posedly COULD be told to ignore, or to respond to something else, 
but that wasn't usually available.
Accordinglyly, when we needed to use a 360 to duplicate a deck that had 
JCL cards, we would turn the source/data deck upside down.  (hope that it 
didn't have '/' in column 80?)