The 360/67 had a Branch and Store (BAS, BASR) to deal with 32-bit virtual 
addresses.

Mike

At 07:25 AM 4/10/2013 -0500, you wrote:
>IIRC, some models of the S/360 had a BAS instruction. But I don't have
>an old S/360 POPS to make sure exactly what it did.
>
>On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>What's the new Instruction that replaces the old BAL  R14,sssss ?
>>
>> By new do you mean "30 years old"? If so, the BAS answer seems correct.
>> If you mean "only 15 or so years old", perhaps BRAS is the answer you seek
>> (I did not look up just when the relative-immediate facility was
>> introduced).
>>
>> Peter Relson
>> z/OS Core Technology Design
>
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>
>--
>This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an
>actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you?
>
>Maranatha! <><
>John McKown

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