who here already worked with these ?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Hipp wrote:

> I wonder what kind of psychosis I have to still remember the exact 
> version numbers of the operating system (OS/MVT 21.8F with HASP version 
> 4.1).

What??   You mean you weren't running VM/370 on it so you could timeshare??

For shame....

And I wrote the original code for the HASP time-slicing routine...  Did I ever 
work for IBM?  Nope...   After I bitched to IBM about how more efficient 
things could be if they put I/O jobs in the foreground and compute stuff in 
the background,  they said "Prove it!".   So I did.

> 
> Think I'll go sit in the rocker on the front porch and cover myself with 
> a warm blanket.
> 

Nice place to be.