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X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" With JCL it is as easy to read one tape as it is to read 1000 tapes. > On 2019, Oct 13, at 8:36 PM, Jon Forrest wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > On 10/13/2019 2:45 PM, Steve Johnson wrote: >=20 >> I did have the opportunity in the early years to demonstrate Unix to = several dozen people, mostly users of the (IBM) mainframe computers and = the GE/Honeywell Time Sharing System. The sequence that initiated = gasps, confusion, and ultimately joy was: >> % echo hello joe > hijoe >> % cat hijoe >> hello joe >=20 > A technically equivalent but more dramatic version of this > that I used to use back then was a shell script that would > prompt for the name of a file to display, and then display the > file whose name the user entered. >=20 > This would make steam come out of the ears of the IBM mainframe > people because it wasn't possible to do that on the IBM mainframe > in use at the time. >=20 > Jon >=20 >=20 >=20