I still use allocate - no joke. We've had a  Series 42 for a good 15 years -
Never had to upgrade because my business has been shrinking due to
demographic and technological changes.

I stumbled upon the mpe newsgroup and it was as if I came out of a time
warp.

When I left  Alfredo Rego was living in Guatemala and Charles Finley had a
company called ConAm.

I will have to get a PA machine probably  next month since MPE doesn't seem
to know that 00 is 2000 and not 1900.

Bill and Dave built this machine too well - in the time we've had it the
CPU, er, SPU, had ONE service call - bad fan. The CEs came out here and
marveled at stuff they hadn't seen in years.

One funny story - we were among the last to use the 2645 terminal. Still
best keyboard ever made IMO. HP had a customer in Reno doing medical billing
and they depended on this terminal so when theirs broke HP took ours for a
700 series. They no longer had the parts in their inventory.

Well, gotta run.

Bill
William L. Brandt
Sacramento, CA USA

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Wilkinson <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: MPE Trivia


> Wow Mark,
>
> Which version of MPE did these commands appear in? I've never heard of any
of
> them and I've been MPE-ing for over 18 years now...
>
> Mark W.
> SPE.
>
> PS. Does anyone remember using ALLOCATE to hold commonly used programs in
memory
> on classic machines? This is about as obscure as I get. I bet a lot of
people
> out there still do this. <g> I also remember writing my first VIEW program
by
> copying the COBOL source for ENTRY and inserting IMAGE calls at the
appropriate
> places.
>
>
>
>
>
> Mark Klein <[log in to unmask]> on 30/08/99 23:50:10
>
> Please respond to [log in to unmask]
>
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:    (bcc: Mark Wilkinson/UK/EU/SPE)
> Subject:  Re: MPE Trivia
>
>
>
> OK ... OK ... here are the answers:
>
> They were ALL legitimate commands:
>
> =========================================================
>
> Which of the following were legitimate MPE commands, and
> what do they do?
>
> :SETLOCK        Set a file lockword.
> :LOADER         Invoke the loader subsystem.
> :CHART          Flowcharter.
> :WAITOP         Wait for a reply message from the operator.
> :SHOWCHARGES    Show resources used for chargebacks.
> :USE            Use a user command dictionary.
> :CEASE          Cease using a user command dictionary.
> :LISTCOM        List the commands in a dictionary.
> :BUILDCOM       Build a dictionary.
> :ADDCOM         Add a command to the dictionary.
> :PURGECOM       Purge the dictionary.
> :TASK           Didn't you know MPE was a real-time tasking OS too?
> :SHOWTASK       Show those real-time tasks.
> :ABORTTASK      Abort it when it runs away with the CPU.
> :LOADINT        Load an interrupt routine.
> :UNLOADINT      Unload the interrupt routine.
> :DISCONNECT     Suspend an online session with the intention of returning.
>