The sign is only going to be relevant if that is true. If there is no
sign then there is nothing to discuss.
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 6:35 PM -0700, "Seymour J Metz" <[email protected]> wrote:
You're assuming that the input character string has only digits.
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Subject: Re: Convert *signed* EBCDIC to packed decimal
There is no such thing as a sign before the value is packed or
converted to binary.
Since all numbers have a zone field of X’F’ there can be no discussion about a
sign since it is not part of the number
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:53 PM -0700, wrote:
On 2020-06-05 07:35, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Yeah, 8 microsecond instead of .75 microsecond.
The S/360 normal cycle time was 2 microseconds.
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> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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> On 2020-06-05 03:45, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> I remember $.25/bit, but don't recall what year that was; too low for
>> 1960, too high for 1969.
>
> Don't forget that there were two types of core memory for
> the S360 --
> LCS used a product from India, with a much slower cycle time
> compared to IBM's normal memory.
