Thanks everyone for your prompt responses. At the end of the day, I think I'll just go with what John Gilmore suggests and say that there are many more instructions that there used to be. With some embellishment, it will get across the point that I'm trying to make.
Thanks, Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Trübner > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Number of added instructions? > > Tony, > > >> ...a few more than 6 of the old privops have gone. > > John counted/referenced 360 .... and I believe that he is right...I > counted 13, but I had such "new" stuff like LRA in my list. > > >> ... more than 6 of the old privops have gone. ....SSK/ISK and RRB > >> come to mind, > > RRB was not on 360- introduced later and retired meanwhile. > > And only because 2K pages are not sufficient (since ....), because IBM > has said so. Japanese boxes had 2K pages way beyond 16M (and no problem > with that) (as long as you switched them to use 4K pages when having > more than 16M on an IBM op-sys). > > -- > Martin > > Pi_cap_CPU - all you ever need around MWLC/SCRT/CMT in z/VSE more at > http://www.picapcpu.de
