[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-08-09 16:52, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<0P2dndUuF7wOycbRnZ2dnUVZ_hednZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>>
>> I thought that EBCDIC would have gone out with 80 column punched cards!
>> Do they still use punched cards?  It's been about ten years since I last
>> saw one!
>
>     According to my IBM friends, the internals of MVS were entirely
>     designed around punch card images, although not all of them 80
>     column.  I'd suspect z/OS is still that way.
>

Correct. If you type SUBMIT in the SPF editor, the JCL job
is sent to the "internal reader", a software emulation
of a real card-reader. The batch subsystem doesn't see
the difference realy... :-)