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Motivation for early monitors

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From: tkoenig@netcologne.de (Thomas Koenig)
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by: Thomas Koenig - Sun, 5 Sep 2021 20:31 UTC

I just stumbled across an interesting paper:
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P7316.pdf
describing how people used to run jobs on the IBM 701, and how
a predecessor of JCL came along, which was a big improvement
at the time.

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by: Rich Alderson - Mon, 6 Sep 2021 18:55 UTC

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

> https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P7316.pdf

Fascinating read! Thanks!

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Subject	Author
Motivation for early monitors	Thomas Koenig
Re: Motivation for early monitors	Rich Alderson