Roedy Green wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:27:24 -0500, "John W. Kennedy"
> <jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
> said :
>
>> /Which/ operating system? On MVS, customers could get direct access to
>> IBM's equivalent of Bugzilla. Still can, as far as I know.
>
> This would have been some variant of OS 360/370. They offered it on
> tape. This was pre-Internet days now I think of it, circa 1975.
At that date, that could have been OS/VS1 (virtual-memory descendant of
OS/360 MFT II), OS/VS2 SVS (virtual-memory descendant of OS/360 MVT,
with all jobs sharing a single 16MiB virtual memory), or OS/VS2 MVS
(same, but with a separate virtual memory for each job).
Going back to 1967 at the latest, you got a bug database with KWIC,
updated every 2 weeks on microfiche. At some point in the early 70s, you
could subscribe to a searchable database on tape. At some later point in
the 70s, once SNA was in place, so that you could plug into IBM's
network, you could go straight online and search and re****t problems.
Unless, I suppose, things were different in Canada. But it seems
unlikely that IBM Canada would have so very different a business model.
--
John W. Kennedy
"There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump
of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that
because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in
the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I
can't see it that way."
-- The last words of Bat Masterson
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