On 2013-04-13, at 15:51, John Gilmore wrote:
>
> If instruction INST is not available on some of the machines he must
> support he can write a macro definition called INST that mimics its
> behavior for use on these antediluvian machines, do very much the same
> thing IBM does for millicoded instructions, albeit somewhat less
> elegantly.
>
This presumes either that the product is distributed in source, or,
if OCO, assembled with different options for each target machine,
and correspondingly multiplies the testing requirements.

-- gil

Reply via email to