On 2017-11-27, at 14:09:56, Charles Mills wrote:

> You've got to do a little bit more hoop-jumping for AMODE(31) -- separate 
> storage for the DCBs, and remembering the extra parameters on the various 
> macros. Not prohibitive, but a little more to remember, and a few more 
> possibilities for gotchas. 
>  
Wouldn't it be great if a single SET symbol setting could condition all the
system macros to generate 24/31/64 bit expansions?

Better if 24-bit just went away and never came back.  And the horse
it rode in on.

> I have not mentioned this in a while, but I wrote a paper on converting an 
> xMODE(24) xSAM program to xMODE(31). If anyone wants a copy, just write me 
> off-line. Not a sales pitch for anything; no salesman will call.

-- gil

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