On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:34:42 -0600, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:45:53 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:20:25 -0600, McKown, John wrote: >> >>> >>>I see why it is not, technically, 64 bit storage. >> >>It's 32-bit storage. > >What do you mean by that, Mark? It's not 31-bit and it isn't "64-bit" either. I was trying to be cute. I meant to put a smiley after that sentence. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html > >AFAIK, when someone refers to storage as "64-bit", they are speaking of the >addressing mode required to address it. Similarly, "24-bit" storage or >"31-bit" storage refers to the minimum addressing mode required to address it. > >You wouldn't refer to PSA as 10-bit storage, would you? > >You can't run z/OS on a 360-67. <g,d,r> > >-- >Tom Marchant > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
