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                          GENESIS



         In  the beginning,   IBM  created  the hardware  and  the
      software. And the software was without form, and zeroes were
      upon the face  of the disks.  And the sysgen  moved upon the
      face of the drum.  And IBM said,  "Let there be system," and
      it was "genned".  And IBM saw the system,  and it was buggy.
      And IBM  divided the  light from the  dark,  and  called the
      light OS, and the dark HASP. And the cold start and the warm
      start were the first crash.

         And IBM said,  "Let there be a supervisor in the midst of
      core,  and let it divide the  regions from the regions." And
      IBM called the supervisor MVT.  And the cold start,  and the
      warm start were the second crash.

         And  IBM  said,  "Let  the  programs  in the  machine  be
      gathered into one  area," and it was so.  And  it called the
      area LINKLIB, and the rest EXTRALIB, and IBM saw that it was
      good.  And IBM said,  "Let  the supervisor bring forth (CLG)
      initiators,  and  the initiators running programs,   and the
      programs yielding output, each to it's own dataset," and IBM
      saw that it was good. And the cold start, and the warm start
      were the third crash.

         And IBM  said,  "Let  there be lights  on the  console to
      divide  the wait's  from loops,   and  let them  be for  the
      operators and for the programmers.   And IBM made five great
      lights:  the system light to rule the CPU, the wait light to
      command the operators -- He made the PSW also.  And the cold
      start, and the warm start were the fourth crash.

         And IBM said,   "Let the disk bring  forth abundantly the
      utilities that hath bugs,  and  appendages may fly above the
      system  in supervisor  state."  And  IBM created  the  great
     compilers,  and  every subroutine that  runneth and  IBM saw
     that it was good. And the cold start and the warm start were
     the fifth crash.

         And  IBM said,   "Let the  core bring  forth the  linkage
      editor  after  it's  kind,   for  object  modules  and  load
      modules," and it was so. And IBM said, "Let us make users in
      our own  image and let them  have dominion over  the readers
      and over the printers and over the disks and over all of the
      system,  and over every bug in HASP that lurketh beneath the
      nucleus." And IBM created the user in His own image, and IBM
      blessed them,  and said,  "Be  fruitful and multiply and add
      and subtract and divide, and fill the queues." And IBM said,
      "Behold,  I have given you every procedure bearing JCL which
      is on the face of the PROCLIB. And IBM saw that it was good.
      And the cold start and the warm start were the sixth crash.

         Thus the hardware and the software were finished, and all
      the troubles with them. And on the seventh day IBM unbundled
      the work that it had made,   and rested from producing.  And
      IBM sanctified the  unbundling and blessed it  -- because on
      it, IBM rested and created a larger profit.







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