Re: History (was Matching Record (Was Need Help))

On  7 Aug 97 at 12:47, Jeff Crosby wrote:

> > Ok, since we are going so far back in time... who here remembers
> > the GOLEM program... what did it stand for and what did it do?
> GOLEM = Grant Operational Liberty for Everything Meaningful
> ROLEM = Revoke Operational Liberty for Everything Meaningful
> It's been a while (!) but I think this was to grant (GOLEM) or
> revoke (ROLEM) "console" status to a S/34/36 workstation other than
> the actual console, W1.

Yep... now here's a scary thought... last time I worked on a S/36, 
the USERS had access to GOLEM and used it often.  There were more 
than a few times that a user took the console to a remote system via 
passthrough and then dropped the session.  We had more console 
check's than you can shake a stick at.

david
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