Perhaps he was referring to the 360/20 and 360/44, which did not have the full basic S/360 instruction set.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Robin Vowels <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM On 31/01/2018 2:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On 2018-01-30, at 21:21:49, Robin Vowels wrote: >> >> The MVC and CLC instructions of the IBM /360 came years before >> Unix and C. >> > ... and were available on all but the most primitive S/360 models. The 360 model 30 had MVC and CLC. > > I believe that nowadays the z has strlen() and strcpy() in microcode. > >> And I understand that RISC processors came long after C. >> > Me, too.
