At 02:51 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote: >... >There was also LCS (Large Capacity Storage, Low Cost Storage, bulk storage) >in the late 1960s that could move a double-word aligned field much faster than > with regular storage, thus adding another variable not accounted for in any >instruction timing formula. It was installed on a S/360 Model 75 to which I >had access. That data center's billing algorithm gave users an incentive to >use the bulk storage if possible, thus letting their jobs run faster, thus >allowing greater daily throughput of the whole data center. > >Bill Fairchild >Franklin, TN
LCS? Fast? Maybe if the Same Day Service bit was on ... :-) Michael Stack Product Developer NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
