[Gllug] Hello all

[Rich Walker]

salsaman <salsaman at xs4all.nl> writes:

> James Roberts wrote:
>
>>
>> Originally trained as IBM 360 asssembly programmer/analyst at Control Data Corporation rather a
>> long time ago.
>
> You haXXored mainframes...in assembly ?! That's pretty 1337...;-)

I have a recollection that the main system tool on IBM mainframes used
to be called HACK: patches of the system binaries were circulated and
this tool used to apply them...

(but I'm willing to be completely wrong about that)

cheers, Rich.

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