Bill Fairchild <bi...@mainstar.com> of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List
<IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> wrote on 07/06/2011 08:34:28 AM:

> And just why do we use the word "grande" to describe machine
> instructions that operate on 64-bit addresses and which have the
> letter "G" somewhere in the op code?  When did IBM make that
> official?  Why not "gargantuan" or "ginormous"?  lol

I first heard the term "grande" used by Bob Rogers in his "What You Do When
You're a CPU" SHARE presentation (2004).

Regards,
John K

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