On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:14:45 -0700, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: >The book "Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution" by >Blaauw and Brooks has many descriptions on how instructions got >to be the way they did. > >(Blaauw was the main designer of S/360...
I thought that Gene Amdahl was the principle architect of 360. A search to check my facts seems to reveal that Amdahl, Blaauw and Brooks led the design team. >explain that EDIT is rarely used by COBOL Really? I learned how EDIT works in the early 1970's after seeing it in the code generated by Cobol. As I recall, Cobol used it whenever formatted numeric output was needed. -- Tom Marchant
