From: "Tony Harminc" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011 3:08 PM
On 30 August 2011 21:40, robin <[email protected]> wrote:
From: "Tony Harminc" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011 1:46 AM
On 30 August 2011 07:45, robin <[email protected]> wrote:
No it isn't, because, for the reason given,
namely, that IBM software programmers didn't want to use the instruction.
Don't you mean "hardware programmers"?
No.
I write programs for the hardware to execute; I don't know what you
do. Software programmer makes as much sense as program programmer.
Software programmer, to distinguish from a hardware programmer.
Don't forget that some S/360 models were microprogrammed.