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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Re: B1700
Message-ID: <586@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 11:59:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 11:59:38 1984
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All the tools that you described were available to the general user
on the MVS systems I have worked on.  Maybe you had management that
didn't feel that they were "cost effective".  If so, maybe they ought
to have their heads examined.  Not having things like a nice text editor
(even ISPF isn't that bad), text processing (DCF), and a whole lot of
programming languages is very narrow minded on the part of the system
management.  I was refering to more obscure (but very useful) tools like
source control (like make, but far more comprehensive, and more expensive)
and multiple processes, symbolic debuggers, and command processors.

Herb...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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