Talk:IBM 3790

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Notes on article from a former 3790 programmer

The language may have been incomprehensible to some but I found it rather cool. Dealing with a macro language gives you the opportunity to have macros that generate macros that generate code. Really cool.
"Incomprehensible" is opinion.
IMO PVS actually was rubbish and the article is accurate. It was easier to include a bunch of no-ops in your code, download it, test and then use the CE 's access code to do machine-level code changes on the actual box. This is probably not an ITIL-approved method.
"Back then, mainframe time was expensive and hard to schedule" - not really. As a programmer we didn't care about expense and around midnight scheduling is no problem
"The manual for the Macro Assembler was about 4 inches thick, and it was almost impossible..." sounds like sour grapes :-)
The code was downloaded to a target system (test or prod) using "S-Cubed" - SSS (System Something Services)

--Kcrossle (talk) 20:18, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OS?

Did the 3790 run DPCX, just like the 8100 could? What about DPPX? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ClickRick (talk • contribs) 12:33, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No the 3790 had its own operating system, DPCX was merely an emulator that was written to facilitate easy migration to the 8100 platform. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzsimonb (talk • contribs) 02:52, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Missing information

I added some info from the product announcement, but there's a lot still missing. Hopefully someone will have this information.

memory size - the 3790 was not marketed as a computer; the memory size of the control units is not specified.
discontinued date - no information found.
3793 - no information, photo would be nice.
Printer - band printer?

Peter Flass (talk) 14:13, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

POV

Someone really, really didn't like the 3790. I don't have the knowledge to revise this article, but maybe some "former 3790 programmer" or other could remove some of the negativity. Peter Flass (talk) 14:22, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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