> One of the instructors told us that MVS control blocks were > designed for 16 processor support... but that one of the optimizations > for MVS/SE was to simplify the code to support only two > processors. "We don't HAVE any 16-processor machines," he said, > "and it's faster to test for this CPU or that one."
Actually what they do is test on a simulator and they use CPUID 00 and CPUID 11 (i.e. they tell one CPU that its number 17) and everything works out. Amazing, clever, sneaky, pick your opinion... CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
