who here already worked with these ?

[Michael Hipp]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> What??   You mean you weren't running VM/370 on it so you could timeshare??

I thought the VM genre were from a later era. But I could be wrong as I 
didn't have much interest in IBM stuff. I was busy writing a FORTH 
interpreter for an RT-11 system that I later had access to (actually it 
was a HeathKit H-11).

> 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.

Some of the old timers I worked with at Dow Chemical, Texas Operations 
said they helped write the Houston Automatic Spooling Program. Did you 
happen to run across any of them?

Hmm. I started out as a console op on a mainframe; then did a bit of 
work on a VAX/VMS minicomputer; then got immersed in PCs. I guess 
downsizing has been my career motto ;-)

Michael