Those slides are excellent! Lots of work went into that. Many thanks.
> On Sep 29, 2021, at 12:05 AM, Dan Greiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have put together a series of PowerPoint files illustrating the operation > of the vector-facility instructions ... a sort of graphic-novel version of > Chapters 21-25 of the PoO. Since the Assembler List doesn't accept file > uploads, you can find the material on my Google drive: > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O_RWJJGMX-tLR0AxEYk4QARxJhi_0MVV/view?usp=sharing > > > Background: > Although I edited much of the vector-facility material that was incorporated > into the z13 z/Architecture Principles of Operation back in 2015, I was not > the engineer responsible for the material, and I never bothered to study it > very closely. Since I retired in 2017, I've been looking more closely, and > recently I started scribbling some notes on a few instructions that puzzled > me ... which turned into a few PowerPoint slides ... which eventually turned > into a 300+ slide opus. > > The PowerPoint files were prepared using a template that I've used in the > past for presentations at SHARE conferences. Like other presentations > illustrating new architecture, the slides make extensive use of animation to > illustrate the operation and data flow. So, they are best viewed in > slide-show mode. However, the real meat of the material is in the presenter > notes for each slide (with a two monitors, you can see both simultaneously). > > There are separate PowerPoint files including an introduction, and a file for > each chapter of the PoO containing vector instructions (7, and 21-25). In the > Chapter 21 file, there are separate slides illustrating the operation of an > instruction with each element size. By the time I got to Chapter 22, my > carpals were acting up, so the slides are mostly limited to a single element > size. > At the end of a SHARE presentation, I would (time permitting) solicit > questions from the audience, and extended discussions might continue at the > SHARE Committee for Informal Discussions (SCIDs, a.k.a. an open bar). > Considering the content of these slides, it would likely take days to present > one chapter's worth ... by which time, the SCIDs would have long since run > out of liquor before any interesting questions could be posed. > > As it is unlikely this material will make it to the SHARE agenda any time > soon, I thought I'd just share it directly. You are welcome to use it for > your own enlightenment, but I will have strong words with anyone who tries to > make a buck off of it. > > As one might expect, much of the development involved a lot of copy-and-paste > operations on a PC, so there may be a few copy-and-paste type of errors > lurking about. If you have questions or meaningful comments as to clarity or > accuracy, you're welcome to contact me via email. However, is you simply > don't like the fonts, colors, or animation ... well ... have a nice day.
