On Wednesday, 96/08/14, Harry Bush wrote to David Noon about "PL/I for
OS/2" as follows:

HB> CD-R's: in less then hour there could be prepared (from image) fresh
HB> new CD at current CSD level.  I could make this on my home
HB> machine... why IBM can't?...  Oh yes, they would involve 200 people
HB> in "production process" and produce pile of obsolete diskettes...

Hi Harry,

The concept of "production" at IBM is probably one of massive batches
of media being written and then stored in a wharehouse until they are
needed. Whipping off a few of the latest release would be too small a
job for IBM.

HB> Hell, even Indelible Blue didn't have PL/I for OS/2 for sale last
HB> year at ColoradOS/2 conference, and I must say they had quite
HB> acceptable presence there... I purchased several excellent products
HB> for special prices ;-)

A product manager at IBM released the PL/I compiler as a hardware
device, so it wasn't offered to software resellers. He/she really
understood the product being marketed ... NOT!!

I sometimes wish I were dumb enough to be a product manager. I'd make
more money, get to go on trips to all the best customer sites, not
have to worry about quality of code, ...

HB> Wow, how do you get punched cards into PC?  Ah, maybe you simply
HB> have some mainframe available and PC linked to it via some kind of
HB> "blue glue" :-) I still have some 9-track 800 BPI tapes - relict
HB> from VM/SP times but regard them mostly as souveniers now... Oh yes,
HB> I did really program in PL/I ...

I no longer have access to a card reader. Those things are very scarce
these days. I'm afraid I had to type the source code into Tritus SPF
or LPEX. Some of the ink on the top of some of the cards had smudged or
faded, so I had to read the punched holes myself on those cards.

Regards

Dave


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