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From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: "Michael Kjörling" <e5655f30a07f@ewoof.net>, coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: NOT DELETED 8 (OS/360)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:05:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VQ8-ZOh7uad4ZGZQ8gYOp9QJE4yDhFWbM7qeGcmzR+R4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23C77EAC-DED5-4ABA-828E-1C18CF3A7FB2@canb.auug.org.au>

On 3/8/24, steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Ken Robinson told a few horror stories of OS/360’s evil (my word) error
> reporting.

OS/VS1 was notorious for... shall we say... terse operator console
messages as well.  An example:

00E WTR WAITING FOR WORK P00

-Paul W.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-08 15:05 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 ` [COFF] " Michael Kjörling
2024-03-08 14:40   ` steve jenkin
2024-03-08 15:05     ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2024-03-08 15:53       ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-11  5:35     ` Dave Horsfall

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