Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

Steve

I recall a big meeting in a Victorian hotel[1] near the IBM UK location which housed the country technical gurus on the occasion of the introduction of program products[2] from previously not charging for software at all, Types 1, 2, 3 or 4. I remember only because of the enormous row - led by Phil Nesbit if anyone remembers him - over the possibility that the Assembler compiler may not be delivered with the operating system which was to continue to be free - or "at no additional cost with the hardware". It may be that the presenter hadn't got this issue correctly specified in his notes, winged it and winged it the wrong way.

Chris Mason

[1] Would 1970 be the right date?

[2] Didn't I see something recently about IBM getting more than half its revenue from software these days - or something like that?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Comstock" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?


...
Assembler comes, of course; it's not "standard" in the sense
there is no OpenSource, ISO, ANSII Assembler standard; but
it's everywhere on zSeries, and it comes included.

Assembler! The only _real_ language!
...

-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.

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