From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: origin of null-terminated strings
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:26:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BFF1BC02-E2C1-4F70-BA1B-E6B30A279C92@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANxB0bSRfggLaJpoYP3aF_iGMYmuAz3n-d5GCcnC-2ebpmdqEA@mail.gmail.com>
> On Dec 17, 2022, at 11:15 AM, Tom Lyon <pugs78@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Clem doesn't mention CP-67/CMS, which IBM kept trying to kill in favor of CMS.
> From Melinda Varian's amazing history of VM, I gleaned these factoids:
> CP-67 - 8 sites by May '68
> Feb of 68 - IBM decommits from TSS
> Apr 69 - IBM rescinds decommit of TSS
> CP-67 - 44 sites by 1970, ~10 internal to IBM
> May 71 - TSS finally decommitted
>
> So TSS was a rocky road, while CP&VM were simple and just worked.
>
Ask the Varians! Lee was a TSS heavy-hitter, and Melinda was...well, Melinda; "What Mother Never Told You" is still the best document about system maintenance ever written.
At least as of last year they were both still alive and well.
Adam
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-16 22:26 Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-17 2:03 ` James Frew
2022-12-17 3:42 ` steve jenkin
2022-12-17 17:11 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 18:15 ` Tom Lyon
2022-12-17 18:43 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 18:46 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 19:26 ` Tom Perrine
2022-12-19 4:26 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
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2022-12-16 23:11 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-16 3:02 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-16 3:14 ` [TUHS] " Ken Thompson
2022-12-16 9:13 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-12-16 13:42 ` Dan Halbert
2022-12-16 16:10 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-16 16:22 ` Tom Lyon
2022-12-16 16:29 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-12-16 20:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-16 21:02 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-16 21:13 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-16 21:49 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 0:26 ` Phil Budne
2022-12-16 21:18 ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-16 21:20 ` Dan Halbert
2022-12-16 3:17 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-16 17:24 ` John P. Linderman
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