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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thompson, Steve , SCI TW) writes: > But as I said in a prior posting, ALC is a low level language. So > perhaps those of us that have programmed in it for years just think > quite differently (I started on S/360 machines). Don't get me wrong, I > am not interested in GATE/TEST coding -- Macrocode at Amdahl was close > enough to the bare metal. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#26 Assembler question http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#27 Assembler question for a little different drift, thread that drifts into a program that I wrote in the early 70s for analyzing 360/370 assembler listings (creating abstract representation of the instructions, instruction flow, doing used-before-set analysis on registers, etc) ... http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#29 To RISC or not to RISC http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#31 To RISC or not to RISC http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#32 To RISC or not to RISC this came up in connection with project that was going to migrate the plethura of internal microprocessors to 801/risc (including ones used in low & mid range 370s) ... and the possibility that they might use some JIT technology ... a dynamic alternative to things like were done for ECPS (statically migrate high-use kernel pathlength into microcode). for other drift ... past posts (& even some really old email) mentioning amdahl macrocode http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#44 Linux paging http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#48 Linux paging http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#9 Mainframe System Programmer/Administrator market demand? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#56 Wild hardware idea http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#59 Misuse of word "microcode" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#60 Misuse of word "microcode" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#24 Description of a new old-fashioned programming language http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#14 Multicores http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#29 Documentation for the New Instructions for the z9 Processor http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#40 POWER6 on zSeries? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#43 POWER6 on zSeries? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#48 POWER6 on zSeries? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#38 blast from the past ... macrocode http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#9 Mainframe Jobs Going Away http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#32 Code density and performance? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#35 Code density and performance? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#39 Using different storage key's http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#42 old hypervisor email ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
