Nick, I remember that KSAM initially was a problem if you had more than one user
and more than one key. Not very good for a multiuser system! HP removed it from
the market, rewrote it, and rereleased it in the late 70's. There was a rumor
that summer interns had written the original product without very good specs.

Nick Demos wrote:

> I am a little (OK, more than a little) fuzzy here, too.
> I don't think the original MPE came with KSAM.  Then for RPG
> HP supplied RSAM and then later KSAM.
>
> Nick D.
>
> Joe Geiser wrote:
> >
> > KSAM, at least as far back as I can remember (the grey matter is working
> > much better today, thanks)... was always included with FOS, although it did
> > have its own product number.
> >
> > I always looked at that product number as a "part number" which was part of
> > the Bill of Materials that made up a FOS tape :)  Nope - never had to order
> > KSAM separately.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Joe
> >
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