john gilmore wrote:
Chris Craddock and Ed Jaffe have guessed that there will be no retrofitting of the new z9 instructions, and they may well be right, but it is important to remember that IBM will consult its own convenience in deciding what to do. (It has retrofitted other such instruction sets and could do so again.)
FWIW, I did not guess. That's the answer I was given when I asked the same question.
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