From: "Michael Kjörling" <e5655f30a07f@ewoof.net>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: NOT DELETED 8 (OS/360)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 12:09:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1612f004-2bd1-4cd8-bce9-1667e4d7e38e@home.arpa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403081747130.77038@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 8 Mar 2024 17:57 +1100, from dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
> Can anyone remember what this meant on OS/360? Ken Robinson (one of my
> CompSci lecturers) used to say "Ah, the old 'NOT DELETED 8 trick!'"...
https://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg107633.html seems
to suggest that "NOT DELETED 8" means "not deleted because in use".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-08 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-08 6:57 [COFF] " Dave Horsfall
2024-03-08 12:09 ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2024-03-08 14:40 ` [COFF] " steve jenkin
2024-03-08 15:05 ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-08 15:53 ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-11 5:35 ` Dave Horsfall
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