WmHBlair

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Role(s) in computing at UNC

Graduate Student of Dr. Fred Brooks, 1970-1973. System Programmer at UNC Comp Center 1971-1973. I worked with Neil Ludlam, Lane Ferris, Charlie Green, Hoyle Anderson, Howard Elder, and Jim Batter at UNC, and Harold Jackson, Jim Walker, John Stephenson, Dave Freeman, and Jim Ott at TUCC. When the System/360 Model 75 was moved from TUCC to the basement of Phillips Hall at UNC, I did the first OS/360 SYSGEN for it and then ported many of TUCC's HASP modifications to the modified version of HASP we used at UNC. As one of the authors of the Chapel Hill Alphanumeric Terminal (CHAT) System, I wrote and supported the OS/360 MVT IOS modifications that enabled the unsupported, non-standard, channel-attached CCI terminal control unit's device type to be accessed using EXCP, and the SVC routines and other I/O and operating system interface support. I also was one of the few people [in the world] ever to run CMS on a real System/360 (other than a Model 67, of course); I used the Model 50 that the UNC Comp Center had at the time.

What are you doing now?

Product development for BMC Software in Houston, TX

Name and address

Zip code
77496
State
Texas
First Name
William
Last Name
Blair
City
Sugar Land

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