RE: BPCS History

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:13 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: BPCS History

Good post Joe.  It would be great if IBMers would report what has gone on
within IBM over the years.  For example, I would like to know how much of
the credit for the S/38 belongs to G. Glenn Henry and why he left the
company.

http://hometown.aol.com/as400friend/myhomepageprofile.html
(follow the early history of S/38 link )

>An example: Program calls with parameters were emulated by writing the
>parameters to a file, spawning the called program and waiting.  The
>spawned program would then read in the parameters, do its thing, and
>write the parms back to the file.  The calling program would then wake
>up and read those parameters in.  As you might guess, this had some
>negative impact on performance.

Doesnt UNIX have DLLs?  DLLs in WIN32 could be used to provide external
program call functionality.

-Steve