Re: The Design of Design

Scott Lurndal wrote:

"Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:

Tim Rentsch wrote:

 

The problem it was trying to solve is contained in its name:  Job
Control Language.  It tacitly accepted the non-interactive batch
model for what it needed to address.

 
You may be right, but correct me if I am wrong, there was no
non-interactive model in the mid 1960s when JCL was devised.

 
BASIC and DTSS was developed in 1963.

Good Point.  So IBM was "guuilty" of vastly mis-understanding and under
estimating the future importance of interactive users.





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