AI back in the day

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Mainframes were originally batch processing only.
Interactive access was a later addon… and it was an addon … interactive commands were different to batch commands.

One of the pleasant surprises of Unix was that commands were the same in foreground and background. We take that for granted today.

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I remember the “good old days of remote job entry” at 4800bps.
Rules:

  1. You can’t win.
  2. You can’t break even.
  3. You can’t get out of the game.
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My first job was COBOL on IBM 4341 for DOS-VSE and 4381 for OS. We wrote insurance software. Some CICS too.

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