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That agrees with my recollections. And one other event at release 12 was that the sources were all resequenced...which wasn't really that much of an additional problem since so much of the code was reworked for MVT.
Side question: "MVT" stood for "Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks." There was another name for MVT that appeared occasionally in the self-documentation comments at the front of some source modules; IIRC it was a 3-character term ending in "2" but I can't recall it. Does this ring a bell with anyone? And where did it come from, and why did it drop out of use?
Pity that someone didn't put release 17 out of its misery prior to FCS and combine it with 18.
At the SHARE meeting following the release of 17 (Boston maybe?) there was a session in which the IBM reps were being "sorely beaten upon" by users because of the errors in the code; one of the IBMers finally responded with "Do you expect us to always get it right the first time?"
The user who had been airing his gripes shot back "No, but we do expect it to work the 17th time."
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:43:07 -0600 in alt.folklore.computers, Anne & Dec Other claims: Manchester Mark I went into operation in June 1948--becoming the first stored-program computer. Maurice...
Everyone (including, although somewhat nervously, the IBMers) laughed.
Was this work the origin of the "JCAMOD" utility?
Joe Morris
Van Dalsen, Herbie minor ref: from above: The seeds of a minicomputer revolution were planted as early as 1960, with the introduction by Digital Equipment Corporation of...
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