In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/19/2007
at 09:01 PM, Doug Fuerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I fail to understand why anyone would find this "stunning." You really
>didn't think IBM gave away every trade secret did you? When I was at
>Intel they weren't giving out the chip masks for the processors or their
>memory chips either. IBM also kept the
>existence of the diagnose instruction hidden in obscure places for many
>years before innocently admitting that it existed and was pretty
>powerful.
Diagnose was in every edition of Principles of Operation that I've ever
seen. Or are you referring to documents from before the S/360
announcement?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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