[Simh] Of DEC and cards

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2020-02-13 18:34, Timothe Litt wrote:
> The 10/20 MPB and GALAXY batch systems supported the model of preparing
> jobs on cards - and feeding them in a continuous stream.  Some university
> environments used that into the 80s.  Being DEC, the "JCL" was trivially 
> simple;
> nothing like the IBM nightmares of complexity.

The batch system under RSX is the same. It can take jobs on punched 
cards, which has its own queue(s).
A few years ago someone was trying to play around with this, and found 
some bugs. Clearly noone had been using this in a long time, or else had 
been using it in a very limited, legacy way.

   Johnny

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