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  1. And of course #TSOE - with #ISPF. The TSO commands however look still very familiar. Same with procedures/modules in SYS1.PROCLIB, even with the #IEFBR14 "do nothing" program still very useful in #JCL.

    The University of Konstanz still had a #Comparex IBM compatible mainframe running, and I wrote a better version of the existing IRC client in REXX. I added the file transfer functions and fixed the EBCDIC-ASCII conversion. Those were the times.

  2. And of course #TSOE - with #ISPF. The TSO commands however look still very familiar. Same with procedures/modules in SYS1.PROCLIB, even with the #IEFBR14 "do nothing" program still very useful in #JCL.

    The University of Konstanz still had a #Comparex IBM compatible mainframe running, and I wrote a better version of the existing IRC client in REXX. I added the file transfer functions and fixed the EBCDIC-ASCII conversion. Those were the times.

  3. @brion I think the concept of a link register is older than #RISC and might even predate stack. Mainframe processors use it too and the utility program that "does nothing" is called just "branch to the link register (R14)" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR1 #IEFBR14

    I think this program is something like the ":" command in the Bourne family of UNIX shells.