[TUHS] origin of null-terminated strings

[Adam Thornton]

> On Dec 17, 2022, at 11:15 AM, Tom Lyon <pugs78 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Clem doesn't mention CP-67/CMS, which IBM kept trying to kill in favor of CMS.
> From Melinda Varian's amazing history of VM, I gleaned these factoids:
> CP-67 - 8 sites by May '68
> Feb of 68 - IBM decommits from TSS
> Apr 69 - IBM rescinds decommit of TSS
> CP-67 - 44 sites by 1970, ~10 internal to IBM
> May 71 - TSS finally decommitted
> 
> So TSS was a rocky road, while CP&VM were simple and just worked.
> 

Ask the Varians!  Lee was a TSS heavy-hitter, and Melinda was...well, Melinda; "What Mother Never Told You" is still the best document about system maintenance ever written.

At least as of last year they were both still alive and well.

Adam