Yes, of course.. Dick... senior moment there..?
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Those heady days of the mid-70's thru the 80's were great times for VM. I was the lead VM systems programmer at Home Savings at the time. We were running an $8B bank on a 3mb 158 under VM with DOS r25 guests along with the normal 50-80 CMS users. We had an online network of around 120-ish teller terminals. (The 158 got upgraded to a 168 and then a 3083 and onward.)
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The performance challenges of that online terminal network was one of the main motivations for us to engage with Lynn and others to discuss the rumored "Wheeler Scheduler" (which never made it into a shipped version of CP67) and how its concepts might address those challenges. These discussions along with other Share members resulted in the changes to VM that ended up with the features included in SEPP and, later, HPO
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Great times.. nice to think back on all we accomplished in those days.
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Cheers,
William Denton
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ps.. for the younger people here, you need to find a copy of the LSRAD report that "saved" VM from the MVS goliath
