On Jul 28,  4:44pm, Winship wrote:

} On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Pete Weiss wrote:
} >
} > Any one who can quote from memory about the derivation of DDNAME is showing their age ;-)
}
} Goodness, and I almost said something myself about it. ;-)

I had originally replied to pete in private email, but as long as this
thread is still going on the list, what I said was:

Well, considering that the first computer I worked on had vacuum
tubes.....

Actually OS/390 still uses DD cards today.

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