On Jan 4, 2008, at 12:07 PM, J R wrote:
then instead of a half word do 8 byte length and provide 16G of
storage.
The halfword length is not the problem. This already allows
for 64KiB which would take in the order of one thousand
continuation cards to fill -- obviously more than would ever
be desirable in what is essentially a human-keyed language.
Well all I can say is never say never. For 30+years 100 characters
were "plenty"
While I admit 16G is probably more than enough. I would rather see a
limit based on max address space size (for example).
I am not sure if MVCL limit is 32K (-1) or not the reasonable max is
probably the longest single instruction can move at one time is
probably feasible.
Ed
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