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  • Subject: Re: Multi-processor machines.
  • From: Bob Larkin <blarkin@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 20:27:48 -0700
  • Organization: Larkin Computer Consulting

Mark Lazarus wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> 
> > Just this week, I wrote a program wiith less then
> >ten lines of executable code (COBOL). This program was added to the job
> >stream of a job that ran 11 HOURS (660 minutes). The run time was
> >reduced to 17 MINUTES. Rather dramatic :)
> >Problem was that a RPG program was calling a COBOL program repeatedly.
> 
>  What is most impressive is that you actually wrote a COBOL program that
> accomplishes something in only 10 lines !!!!    :-)    :-)
> 
>  -mark
Mark,
That was the executable code!! The whole program was about 40-50 lines,]
(Although some was really documentation) :) 

-- 
Bob Larkin
Larkin Computer Consulting
blarkin@wt.net
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