[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

JF Mezei jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca
Fri Mar 13 16:46:45 EDT 2015


Ahhh DOS/VSE....

I remember an early summer job at a magazine publisher whose US
headquaters were in a pleasant town.

This was a VM environment and I was exposed to VM/CMS only. But i got a
good giggle when one day, a very angry analyst got up from her cubicle
and shouted "who wrote data to tracks xxxx to yyy on disk zzzz ? Those
are mine and contained the <important data thing>."

The eventually installed VSAM on DOS/VSE which allowed the use of
something truly innovative: data set names instead of storing data in
track ranges on disks.


circa 1983



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