Grasp (spooler)

GRASP was a systems software package that provided spooling facilities for the IBM/370 running DOS/VS[1] or DOS/VSE environment, and IBM/360 running DOS or retrofitted with modified DOS.

It spooled (queued) input and output data, freeing programs from dependence on the speed of peripherals, such as printers and punched card equipment.

GRASP was originally developed in Australia by Boyd Munro, while working for IBM (who turned it down).

[2] Assisted by Peter Hargrave, Munro formed Software Design, Inc (known as SDI) and began selling first in Australia, then Britain, and shortly thereafter the United States, through SDI, Inc, a California corporation.

The marketing manager and chief salesman was Gerry Novotny.