Subj : Re: 3270 BBS
To   : Dumas Walker
From : tenser
Date : Fri Aug 22 2025 06:43 am

On 21 Aug 2025 at 09:21a, Dumas Walker pondered and said...

DW> >  DW> On a "real" mainframe, that is how it works.  When you type 'x'<ent
DW> >  DW> you are logging out of the user interface.  That takes you out to t
DW> >  DW> TSO "command line" where you type in "logoff"<enter> and the connec
DW> >  DW> drops.
DW>
DW> > Ah...TSO.  I can't remember if it was TSO or TSS that was the
DW> > inspiration for the old quip about kicking a dead whale down the
DW> > beach.
DW>
DW> Since I have never heard that old quip, I am guessing it must have been
DW> about TSS.  ;)

Ah, apparently it _was_ about TSO.  Paul McLellan wrote about it
over on the cadence blog:

https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes/posts/kernighan

(In the section, "Meeting Brian"; I guess Brian Kernighan [co-author
of, "The C Programming Language", along with Dennis Ritchie, who created
the C language, and long-time Bell Labs researcher who's now at Princeton
and Google] either coined it or relayed it.)

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