Where should the type information be 339

small postscript to earlier reply

stu had created cms script command at the science center

for document formating. later at the science center, in '68 plus 1, G, L, and M invented GML (which has since morphed into SGML, HTML, XML, FSML, etc)

and gml tag support was added to script document formating. however, it was quickly being realized that gml tags were useful for more than just specifying document formating.

however, even before invention of gml, bob adair was strong advocate of self-describing data. the performance statistic gathering process ... which ran on the cambridge machine continuously ... created files to tape and there was always header that described the format and fields in the data ... so that even years later the data could be retrieved and analyzed.

some of this legacy from the mid-60s were still around over ten years later when i was getting the resource manager ready to ship. we had over ten years of system performance statistics that could be used for workload and thruput profiling (not only from the cambridge system but also from a number of other internal systems as the methodology migrated into general use). some past posts about workload and performance profiling that went into calibrating the resource manager ... as well as the related technology evolving into things like capacity planning

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