On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:26:31 -0500, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Probably because 40+ years ago, when this was designed, nobody in their >wildest dreams could envision a need for a PARM longer than 100 bytes. :-) > Very few years earlier, nobody could envision a need for an address space larger than 16 MiB. But the address space has grown in three successive increments by a factor of a trillion while the PARM has remained unchaged despite having nine unused bits in the length field.
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