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Motivation for early monitors [message #410736] Sun, 05 September 2021 16:31 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: Thomas Koenig

I just stumbled across an interesting paper:
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P7316 .pdf
describing how people used to run jobs on the IBM 701, and how
a predecessor of JCL came along, which was a big improvement
at the time.
Re: Motivation for early monitors [message #410778 is a reply to message #410736] Mon, 06 September 2021 14:55 Go to previous message
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Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

> https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P7316 .pdf

Fascinating read! Thanks!

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