RE: OT - Shutting down an RS/6000 ?

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 jpcarr@tredegar.com wrote:

> Any shop that actually used the LDA as you discribed would always use it
> strictly from an Externally Defined D/S.
>
> Thus the application base's usage is strictly by Variable Name and
> restricting
> any Byte location usage that it is wrappered away from the application
> base.

Hah!  You haven't seen the crazy old code I work with.  Externally defined
DS?  They didn't exist (I think) on the old S/36 and that is the code I
have to work with quite often.  Thankfully all the new stuff is ILE.

James Rich