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Does anyone remember the old wall chart that showed "all" OS/360 control blocks and their interconnections? It looked like a diagram of neurons
in a brain. Many sysprogs had this on their office wall, more as
decoration than anything else.

I happened to mention this elsewhere, but can't seem to find a copy. The "OS/360 Control Block Logic" manuals have pieces, cut down to fit an
8.5x11" page, but the full chart was probably at least 24x18" or larger.
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Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> wrote in news:109msd1$cgaj$1@dont- email.me:

Does anyone remember the old wall chart that showed "all" OS/360 control blocks and their interconnections? It looked like a diagram of neurons
in a brain. Many sysprogs had this on their office wall, more as
decoration than anything else.

I happened to mention this elsewhere, but can't seem to find a copy. The "OS/360 Control Block Logic" manuals have pieces, cut down to fit an
8.5x11" page, but the full chart was probably at least 24x18" or larger.

Hi Peter,

I remember that poster!

In college I had an instructer that kept "waxing poetic" about all the IBM
360 and 370 design decisions he was in on when he was at IBM. Sadly most students didn't value such knowlege. However he was teaching computer engineering design technologies so it was relevant, even if it "wasn't going to be on the test".

Thank you for that memory.
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 08:54:23 -0000 (UTC), David LaRue wrote:

In college I had an instructer that kept "waxing poetic" about all the
IBM 360 and 370 design decisions he was in on when he was at IBM. Sadly
most students didn't value such knowlege.

I had a similar one whose specialty was Univac mainframes -- which none of
us had access to. This was a systems software course, talking about low-
level details of OS interfacing, writing of utilities etc. There was
perfectly good PDP-11/70 system that was widely used all across campus,
that he could have used as an actual working example for setting practical exercises on; but he knew nothing of that.
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Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> writes:

Does anyone remember the old wall chart that showed "all" OS/360
control blocks and their interconnections? It looked like a diagram of neurons in a brain. Many sysprogs had this on their office wall, more
as decoration than anything else.

I happened to mention this elsewhere, but can't seem to find a
copy. The "OS/360 Control Block Logic" manuals have pieces, cut down
to fit an 8.5x11" page, but the full chart was probably at least
24x18" or larger.

Sure.

I also remember a small handbook with the same information.
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Dan Espen
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