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To: FredZarguna
Oh man! You are ancient!

The only part of that post that remotely qualifies as modern is the mixed-case comments, which were likely added later on a 3270l, probably using the likes of XEDIT, some time in the 80's. XEDIT was a creature of CP/CMS, a virtual operating system which allowed one to run privileged code such as your example without needing exclusive use of an expensive mainframe. Using CP/CMS, you could treat a mainframe as if it were a PC.

Looks like there was a tabbing problem down in those EQUs. Still assembles due to a white space break, but it's ugly.

58 posted on 06/20/2014 12:38:54 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
I had to convert my assembler source to HTML so it would format for FR and I was in a hurry, so my XEDIT macro dropped the </td><td> in the wrong place.

The white space break comes in comments, though, so it's irrelevant.

XEDIT started in VM/CMS IN 1980 IIRC. My thesis research predated that and was actually all done in a 28K MVS region on an IBM 029 keypunch. [They got XEDIT in TSO under MVS in 1985.] I did mixed case comments in 370 assembler as far back as 1984 on an IBM 3279-4.

Yes, I did debug supervisor code in VM/CMS, but I was a systems programmer at that time, and ran supervisor privileged production code all the time under DOS/VSE and MVS as well.

59 posted on 06/20/2014 1:35:22 AM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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