Re: Closed file system was Re: END-IF


"Warren Simmons" <wsimmons5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:42AF425E.4050206@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> A side note from Warren:
>
> On the Univac I, there was NO file system. COBOL had to have one to
> handle the files of the time. Eventually, as resources, and
> understanding grew, the RELATIONSHIP between data and it's use,
> by whom ever, became a key part of the problem. Tab, had become,
> Tape. Now, we get RAM storage and the RELATIONSHIP between the
> purpose of the application, and the procession of the data became
> easier... Vendors of hardware provided some I/O methods to match their
> resources, not use. If you wanted to do bill of material, IBM had
> a team to show you how. One of those teams went private and their
> knowhow became TOTAL. That is only one illustration. There are many ]
> others one could site.
>
> The speed of development of resources to address the "real" problems
> became a generational thing. Then, an effort was made to remove the
> I/O from the Operating System but make it a part of the vendors product
> including an attempt to make that product look the same regardless of
> who provided it.
>
> Seeing as how I can carry a day's worth of music is a box not too much
> larger than a pack of Cigars, and in short order replace that data
> with a new set of the same kind or some other kind of data, the resource
> expansion creates a climate that allows us to simulate real time actions.
>
> My point is that COBOL had nothing to do with this change. In fact it
> helped it occur. The view that closed I/O reduced the value of
> COBOL does not compute at this terminal.
>

That is not my view and never was. It has nothing to do with I/O in the
Operating system or elsewhere. It has to do with users being able to get to
THEIR data. I have responded privately, Warren.

Whether it computes or not, I'm gald to see that particular terminal is
still online :-)

Pete

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