RE: Think before you buy...

[RossWal@domain.elided]

Steve, not to split hairs here (as I perpetuate a thread that has at best 
mild interest for probably 3 of us), but wasn't the 'old' JCL the DOS stuff 
with the dollar signs & periods, and the 'new' JCL the OS/MVS style with 
slashes and asterisks?  I'm pretty sure the 'new' wasn't running in the 60's, 
and I sure hope MD wasn't running DOS in 1989! Sorry, I couldn't help but 
chime in.....

IHC Content: My 73 Scout II has survived my forays through both types of JCL, 
PC DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, NT 4.0 Workstation, a dabbling of in Unix in 
between, and waits for the next 'revolution'.....

Sorry for the WOB,
Ross Walsmith (who has spent some late nites fixing JCL in his day)      

> I started back in the mid 60's with punch cards and 10k of memory on some
> unremembered IBM mainframe.  When I got to McDonnell Douglas in 1989 I
>  first did some work on the mainframe.  It was a shock to see that the JCL
>  I had used 20 years earlier was still state of the art.  A real shocker.