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From: ig25@fg30.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: IBM Genesis
Date: 8 Aug 1994 13:21:47 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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Methinks this bears reposting :-)

                               GENESIS
                               =======
        In  the beginning,   IBM  created  the hardware  and  the
     software. And the software was without form, and zeroes were
     upon the face  of the disks.  And the sysgen  moved upon the
     face of the drum.  And IBM said,  "Let there be system," and
     it was "genned".  And IBM saw the system,  and it was buggy.
     And IBM  divided the  light from the  dark,  and  called the
     light OS, and the dark HASP. And the cold start and the warm
     start were the first crash.

        And IBM said,  "Let there be a supervisor in the midst of
     core,  and let it divide the  regions from the regions." And
     IBM called the supervisor MVT.  And the cold start,  and the
     warm start were the second crash.

        And  IBM  said,  "Let  the  programs  in the  machine  be
     gathered into one  area," and it was so.  And  it called the
     area LINKLIB, and the rest EXTRALIB, and IBM saw that it was
     good.  And IBM said,  "Let  the supervisor bring forth (CLG)
     initiators,  and  the initiators running programs,   and the
     programs yielding output, each to it's own dataset," and IBM
     saw that it was good. And the cold start, and the warm start
     were the third crash.

        And IBM  said,  "Let  there be lights  on the  console to
     divide  the wait's  from loops,   and  let them  be for  the
     operators and for the programmers.   And IBM made five great
     lights:  the system light to rule the CPU, the wait light to
     command the operators -- He made the PSW also.  And the cold
     start, and the warm start were the fourth crash.

        And IBM said,   "Let the disk bring  forth abundantly the
     utilities that hath bugs,  and  appendages may fly above the
     system  in supervisor  state."  And  IBM created  the  great
     compilers,  and  every subroutine that  runneth and  IBM saw
     that it was good. And the cold start and the warm start were
     the fifth crash.

        And  IBM said,   "Let the  core bring  forth the  linkage
     editor  after  it's  kind,   for  object  modules  and  load
     modules," and it was so. And IBM said, "Let us make users in
     our own  image and let them  have dominion over  the readers
     and over the printers and over the disks and over all of the
     system,  and over every bug in HASP that lurketh beneath the
     nucleus." And IBM created the user in His own image, and IBM
     blessed them,  and said,  "Be  fruitful and multiply and add
     and subtract and divide, and fill the queues." And IBM said,
     "Behold,  I have given you every procedure bearing JCL which
     is on the face of the PROCLIB. And IBM saw that it was good.
     And the cold start and the warm start were the sixth crash.

        Thus the hardware and the software were finished, and all
     the troubles with them. And on the seventh day IBM unbundled
     the work that it had made,   and rested from producing.  And
     IBM sanctified the  unbundling and blessed it  -- because on
     it, IBM rested and created a larger profit.

--
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.