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| ARTICLES RELATED TO System/34 | | | |  System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - The Need For SpoolingComputer printers are slow. Very slow. On the S/34, computer programs could write data to the printer much faster than the printer can print... and there can be more than one program writing to a printer at the same time.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - The Need For Spooling |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - How Spooling Works To allow the system to manage the problem, system components called "writers" and "spool files" were developed. A writer is a small system program that reads the spool file, matches a particular printer with a ready-to-print spool object, and begins sending instructions to the printer. It's a two-way process; the printer sends a signal back to the system when it is ready for more work. In order to avoid mixing up data from two spool files, the first report to finish and clo ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - How Spooling Works |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Disk Space Metrics Disk space on the System/34 was organized by "blocks." One block = 2560 bytes. A high-end system would ship with about 90,000 blocks of disk space available. System objects could be allocated in blocks or records, but internally it was always blocks.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Disk Space Metrics |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Files And Libraries
SSP provides for two different data objects called files and libraries. Files contain records, most always with a fixed record length. Libraries contain programs which can reference and access these files. SSP contained more than 60 different commands that allowed operators to create, delete, copy, edit/change, and secure files and libraries.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Files And Libraries |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - When You Can't Spool Sometimes the operator requires a dedicated, live printer - for example, when printing receipts for customers in real time, don't use spooling. Use the PRINTER OCL statement to declare the symbolic print job to be unspooled (SPOOL-NO.)
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - When You Can't Spool |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Program Sizes
Since the S/34 ran "8-bit" programs, the largest program that could be compiled and run was 64K. Most were not nearly that large. Since memory addresses were stored in 8 bits, a 64K program was often a giant monster RPG screen program with 3,000 lines of code, five or six files, and forty-odd array/table entries.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Program Sizes |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Caching
How does a 64K computer program run on a S/34 when only 48K of RAM is available? By using a process called caching. The system uses a cache or workspace on the hard drive to contain portions of the programs currently running. Loading the whole program into the cache area and then moving it piecemeal in and out of storage was a system function performed by the CSP. The MSP performed the instructions in the computer program. Insufficient memory makes the system run slower, since the disk speed was only about as good in the 1980s as PC drives are today, and modern "burst mode" rates were u ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Caching |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - SPOOLING
SPOOL is an acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - SPOOLING |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Language Compilers
The S/34 had four: RPG II, COBOL, BASIC, and FORTRAN. RPG was cheaper, created compact code sizes, and became the far-and-away best-seller. Cobol was very popular in the business community. Fortran just isn't very practical for data processing purposes, and while Basic was nice, it was implemented as an interactive 40K session. Teaching a Basic class and watching eight operators try to key in Basic programs ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Language Compilers |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - System/34 Magazines Not magazine drives, actual magazines that a person would read.
Programmers read about the System/34 in magazines like DataNetwork and News 34/38, though these people were perhaps the nerdiest of nerds. Subscription prices ranged from US$8 to US$12 per copy.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - System/34 Magazines |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - System Security
There are three types of System/34 security: (1) the badge reader that almost nobody ever bought, so it isn't discussed here; (2) password security; and (3) resource security.
Password security was used to begin a session at a computer terminal. Unless security was inactive, a correct password must be entered to begin.
The System/34 sign on looked like this:
SIGN ON W1
USER ID......... ________
PASSWORD........ ____
MENU (OPTIONAL). ______
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - System Security |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications MAPICS, the Manufacturing and Planning Integrated Control System, was a popular S/34 application.
The System/34 Text Editor was a precursor to the IBM Office programs of the future System/36 (DisplayWrite, IDDU, Query, and so forth.)
There was a version of POP (Programmer/Operator Productivity) that ran on a System/34. POP became extremely popular on the System/36 because of its browse and search functions for ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Did I Have To Program?
Not really. You could create a short sequence of file and input specifications and store them as a source member. A component called Data File Utility could then be used to generate on-screen displays you could use to create and edit files and print reports. It was not quite the equal of say, Access 2002, but in twenty minutes flat you could design a file and a report, and that's not bad.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Did I Have To Program? |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs
MRT = Multiple Requestor Terminal program. SSP could actually run one program on up to 7 terminals at once. The operator would start the program on a single terminal, then other terminals could join.
SRT = Single Requestor Terminal program. Not a MRT.
NRT = Non-Requestor Terminal program. Started at a terminal, the NRT releases the requesting terminal and continues. This is similar to an MS-DOS TSR (Terminate and Stay Resid ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Other Object Types Of course, Cobol, Fortran, and RPG generated object code (type O). Basic was interpreted only; a compilation utility called BASICS created subroutine code (type R). Interestingly, Basic programs could be saved as sources for compatibility with other computers, but the project's text was nicely preserved in the subroutine (unless the clever programmer used the LOCK parameter to keep it private.)
Procedures, which use OCL to start programs and assign resources to them, are type P.
Source members for all objects are type S, with the exception of Basic as above-specified.
DFU programs gen ...
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Forms Numbers When the operator printed paychecks, it was vitally important that paycheck information printed on checks forms and not on plain paper; likewise, a regular printout should never print on expensive check forms. Therefore, forms numbers were created. A forms number is a one-to-four-character alphameric field that programs and operators use to straighten out this problem. Programmers use the PRINTER OCL statement as follows:
// PRINTER NAME-PAYCHECK, FORMS-BUXX, DEVICE-P1
When the spool writer is ready to process the checks spool entry, this message appears at the subconsole:
SYS-1404 OPTIONS (012 ) ...
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors
Are words used interchangeably to describe the same thing. An operator sat in front of a device that vaguely resembles today's PC, except the monitor was small, expensive (US$2,000), low-resolution (24x80) and the available colors were green and bright green. (A special workstation called a "dual display" employed a system of mirrors and two users sat on either side of it with two keyboards... they were treated to 12x80 displays.)
Some purists refe ...
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid This application allows the operator to build screen formats or menus online. Screen formats are very much like what Visual Basic and Access call "forms." Command keys can be enabled/disabled. Input fields, output fields, and constants can be created and conditioned. Conditions (in RPG these are called indicators) can cause fields to disappear, change colors, and so forth.
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility SORT is an interesting program. It has one to eight input files, which may be of any valid record length. It has one output file, of any stated length, may contain 1 to 8 million-plus records.
A sort can contain entire records or just 3-byte addresses which point to records in an associated file. This was called an address-out file or ADDROUT. When using an Addrout, the program read in these 3-byte addresses and then fetched associated records from the master file.
A clever programmer who wanted the benefits of a System/38-style logical file would use an Addrout with a RETAIN-S disposition:
// LOAD ...
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility
This looks like a DOS-era text editor. SEU allows data entry on a line-by-line basis. Special forms are used to assist the operator in keying RPG programs or other types of form-based languages (WSU, Sort, SDA, etc.)
WSU - Work Station Utility
This was an RPG-like language that ran on the S/34. It was focused on data entry type programs. WSU was free, but it wasn't particularly well-receive ...
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - EBCDIC The Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code is the IBM mainframe counterpart of ASCII, the American Standard Code For Interchange of Information. On the PC side, the 8" diskette disappeared with the TRS-80 Model II Business Computer; the 5-1/4" diskette became the IBM PC standard in 1981 and the 3-1/2" diskette became the standard with the 286-based PC in 1984. But if you really want to make it difficult to convert your computer da ...
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10 These are proper names given to system equipment.
F1 is the Fixed Disk (the hard drive.) I1 is the Diskette Drive. S1, S2, and S3 are the three single Diskette Slots (if a magazine drive is connected.) M1.01-M1.10 are diskette slots 1 through 10 on Magazine 1. M2.01-M2.10 are diskette slots 1 through 10 on Magazine 2.
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