On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 13:36 -0500, Glenn Miller wrote:
> However, I saw a creative way to use 2 instructions that would reverse the
> data in the read buffer.  Remember
> this code was originally written for a S/360 Model 30 machine.  Anyone have
> a guess what these instructions
> were/are?

Sure, MVC followed by TR.  I *vaguely* recall that the old PL/I 'F'
compiler would generate similar code when one of the optimization phases
discovered that you were rearranging a record.

-- 
David Andrews
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
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