We could always code the information into a small database with as many dimensions as we wanted and allow the data to be cut by any or all of them. Perhaps an app for your phone, tablet or PC. Would be cool.
Not what the POP is about, but it would be cool. Joey -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Redesigning the Principles of Operation Manual On 2014-11-12, at 23:27, [email protected] wrote: > > That is an excellent point. The description would get a lot clearer if it > just detailed one instruction. That could be a significant improvement. I'm > sure IBM can come up with a mechanism to create such an end result without > replicating every spec of information in the description of every instruction > it applies to. That would make life easier for the authors and prevent errors > in new versions. > Hypertext? With generous use of "See also ..." Or, for each basic instruction, hyperlinks in a matrix of: address format (RR, RS, SI, SS, ...) by operand format (C, H, F, G, P, D, ...) Each expanding to a complete and concise description of that form only. But where to put the AMODE considerations for such as LA? A third dimension? -- gil
