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- From: azog@spatula.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE IBM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.032132.14404@spatula.rent.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 03:21:32 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.134855.28580@geovision.gvc.com> <1992Nov19.230823.9763@spatula.rent.com> <30546@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
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- In article <30546@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> tbruseha@hollywood.ems.cdc.com (Tom Brusehaver) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.230823.9763@spatula.rent.com> azog@spatula.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine) writes:
- >
- [ much blathering by myself deleted ]
- >Did you really get rid of it, or did you just replace the physical
- >unit (card reader/punch) with something else? Arent most devices
- >attatched to a 360 class mainframe (or sorry 390) through SNA still
- >considered card readers and punchers (I haven't actually messed with
- >VSE, only MVS)?
- >
-
- Well, for the longest time, the actual reference to the card reader
- (2901? forget), was removed the system startup (a DEFINE card), but
- the physcial machine sat around for a few months. When we got rid of it,
- we rewired channel 0 (where the cardreader and printers usually live,
- due to being such slow I/O devices). Now we have 020 as a 3422 mag reel
- drive, and 00E as a 4245 printer. Now, think about this addressing just
- a little bit. What do you think will happen when you fire up a nice
- tape sort on 020? The printer stops...
-
- Anyways, things are still refered to as cards (and devices are
- card readers and punches). You can still see this when you
- start things up, virtual card readers and all that. ICCF (the
- development system) cannot handle anything but card images, even
- tho its a real file. Columns 72 thru 80 are totally unaccessable, and
- used for special editing tasks (and dont start me on the ICCF editor,
- the most horrid thing I ever saw)...
-
- I could go on for hours about the badness of things. Here is something
- to ponder on... All the password files (for CICS) are text files sitting
- somewhere on the system. To add a new password, you have to assemble this
- text file into a phase (IBMs name for an executable). The originating
- text file is in no way encrypted or protected. On that same vein, a
- user simply cannot change his password by himself.
-
- --
- Billy D'Augustine azog@spatula.rent.com
-
- No lord shall stand before myself.
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