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To: Red Badger
DOS was where the REAL computer guys worked!

Some of us worked in VAX/VMS, MVS, and JCL ... but that was on big(ger) iron.

17 posted on 08/17/2016 10:45:44 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: NorthMountain

Those guys were like ‘gods’ to the ‘rest of us’....................


21 posted on 08/17/2016 10:46:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: NorthMountain

My favorite was Lotus 1.2.3. on VAX/VMS. I themed the range names so that reading a block of them told a story. It was a massive program that I later had to write again from scratch with Virtual Basic for Applications.


57 posted on 08/17/2016 11:12:59 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: NorthMountain
Some of us worked in VAX/VMS, MVS, and JCL ... but that was on big(ger) iron.

I worked on those, among others. Back in the day, I did a lot of MVS and JCL work. I wrote specialized JES (basically job-entry-system) exits in assembler language to control how the mainframe interpreted JCL cards (job-control-language). I customized JES exits with back doors to scan for my jobs, and give them highest priority to run on the mainframe (hee-hee). Co-workers were mystified how I got immediate turnaround on running my jobs. I checked many years later, and my code was still running.

99 posted on 08/17/2016 11:50:54 AM PDT by roadcat
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