Re: Extensions and dots in filenames

["Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>]

On Mon, December 4, 2006 5:37 pm, Dick Margulis wrote:

> 'Scuse me. I was programming computers before there were Selectric
> console devices (remember the B-2 typewriter with the testicle guard?).
> A file name was something you wrote in Magic Marker on the box of punch
> cards or else scribed on marking tape on a mag tape carrier. Operating
> system? What operating system. JCL was as good as it got, bubbeleh.

JCL was the New Thing (on the IBM 360) back in 1966/7 when I got into the
racket.

Before that, I wuz using an IBM 1620.  Now THERE's one with no OS. Load
the compiler deck, then run the source decks in with the console switches
set ONE way.  Watch for diagnostics on the typewriter.  Any decks that did
not generate diagnostics could then be run through again with the switches
set the OTHER way so that an object deck would be punched.  Then stack the
bootstrap, the object deck, the subroutine library deck, and the data in
the reader and Go For It.

--Guy K. Haas
  Software Exegete in Silicon Valley

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