In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/24/2007
at 09:34 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Eventually there was a APL language development group formed in STL
>which picked up APL\CMS responsibility as well as making it available
>on MVS ... renaming it VS\APL (and later APL2).
Dont forget APL Shared Variables.
>The 370/165 had a horizontal microcode engine ... and achieved an
>avg. of 2.1 machine cycles per 370 instruction ... which was
>improved to 1.6 machine cycles per 370 instruction (and hit nearly
>1:1 with 3033).
My recollection is that the most common instructions on the 3165 only
required one cycle.
>In addition to stuff like APL microcode assist done for 145/148 ...
>there was the VM kernel assist "ECPS" done for both 138 & 148.
The were also assists for OS/VS1 and MVS/SE, to say nothing of the
infamous ECPS:VSE.
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