sorting was: The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3893

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in that period, getting a 3270 on your desk required VP approval and the terminals requests also had to go into the fall budget plan. then one short period there was non-linear change ... it became known that a couple of the senior executives had 3270s and were doing email ... and all of a sudden all executives and middle management had to also have their 3270; which wasn't provided for in the standard budget cycle ... management just pre-empted everybody else's 3270 in their organization (it all of a sudden became a status symbol and the thing to have on manager's desk).

the "PROFS" group put menu interface on some number of things and claimed the whole thing as their own (even given awards for developing the email processor). however, several of the items they actually picked up from other places ... which caused some amount of embarrisment when it was pointed out. the email processor had been a very early, redimentary version of VMSG. when the person actually responsible raised the issue ... there was an attempt to get the person fired. the funny thing was not only was his initials on the source ... but he had also included his initials in a hidden control field of every email sent.

in any case, because of the fall planning and VP approval scenario for terminals ... we did the business analysis that showed the three year amortized cost for a terminal (at external customer list price, rather than internal transfer cost) was less per month than a business phone ... which went on everybody's desk as a matter of course (and most of these terminals eventually had lifetimes well in excess of a decade, or in some cases, two decades).

once the terminal status symbol for managers and executives got started, it then continued on ... where it was common to find managers pre-empt the newest and most decked out PCs, PS2, etc ... for their desk (many terminal if they were turned on at all and ever used ... it was purely for terminal emulation for infrequent PROFs operation). there were numerous complaints of brand new PS2m80 with the fastest processors, max'ed out memory and largest display screen ... ordered for real work on real projects ... getting diverted to some manager's desk for their status symbol (where it might be used for PROFs email a couple times a week).

some old email from long ago and far away (the vmsg source "borrowed" by the profs group ... was a much earlier version than this)

Think Vmsg is almost in a state where it's finished apart from ENCRYPTION. So do you want the source ?

Unless of course you've found more bugs.

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To: lovex yes, send source. I'm still interested in placing in shared segment.

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To: lovex IPSASM is the main module of the IPS package (encryption). VMSG now has mods. to support various security-encrypting options by calling IPSASM. A CRDR will be coming out shortly which will read encrypted files. Also VMSG has new option to support sending ITIPS

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in the above, my reply 3-12-79 is nearly eight hrs earlier than the original ... because the original message was sent from a time-zone that was eight hrs away.

as an aside, the same person that did vmsg ... also did parasite and story; a few past parasite-story posts:

a few past posts mentioning vmsg &-or profs

a few past posts mentiong phone book effort