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Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by JackFr on Monday December 17, 2018 @10:34AM (#18699538)
> He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system.

I think you mean WYLBUR.

I had the "opportunity" to work with WYLBUR once in 1993, and I remember it to this day. "the worst system with remote batch" dramatically understates how bad it was. Hearing this raises Knuth even higher in my estimation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORVYL_and_WYLBUR

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Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by jhayward on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:11PM (#18708915)
> He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system.

How funny, because Wylbur was a large improvement on the default at the time, MVS's TSO (Time-Sharing Option). Wylbur was miles easier and faster than TSO.

So, not actually 'the worst system with remote batch' because that trophy would go to TSO.

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