Personal Introduction

I'm a systems programmer by profession, although my degree is in Mathematics. I tend to be obsessive about details, and would appreciate a heads up on anything that I get wrong, even if it's minor. I'm interested in computer languages, fantasy, Mathematics, operating systems, physical sciences, programming languages and science fiction, although I don't have the background to write articles about everything I'm interested in. For the time being, please see my home page for information on my background. I'll try to add some text here as I become more familiar with local customs.

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (talk) 17:08, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I write about

I expect to make minor contributions in articles related to computer architecture, computer history in the second half of the 20th century, operating systems and programming languages. As time allows I may also write articles in those areas.

My contribs

In support of my editing I have constructed a list of reference data, mostly IBM related, that others might find useful.

• Minor edits
• Input/Output Configuration Program
• Input/Output Control System
• SCRIPT (markup)
• OS/VS2 (SVS)
• System Generation (OS)
• IBM System/360 architecture

To do

To-do list for User:Chatul: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2022-02-28 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Other : Count Key Data expand cylinder fix disk fix Emulators Add narrative on IBM S/3x0 emulators and 704 compatibility

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Professional Programming languages Ada-2 This user is an intermediate Ada programmer. Assembler (for several machines)-N This user is a native Assembler (for several machines) programmer. C-1 This user is a beginning C programmer. COBOL-2 This user is an intermediate COBOL programmer. for-2 This user is an intermediate Fortran programmer. HLASM-N This user is a native HLASM programmer. Perl-2 This user is an intermediate Perl programmer. PL/I-2 This user is an intermediate PL/I programmer. re-2 This user writes intermediate regular expressions. REXX-5 This user is a professional REXX coder. Markup languages css-0 This person rarely uses Cascading Style Sheets, but might know how to achieve some backwards compatible effects with valid XHTML. DCF-3 This user is very good at writing DCF. -2 This user is an intermediate LaTeX user. SCRIPTW-3 This user is very good at writing SCRIPTW. HTML-2 This user is an intermediate HTML user. W3C This user believes in compliance with W3C standards.

This user uses Microsoft Windows under duress.

Education WSU This user is alumni at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. This user attends or attended the University at Buffalo. MA This user has a Master of Arts degree in Mathematics.

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