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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Marchant) writes: > There may have been speculation within IBM that Macrocode, and the > architecture that enabled it, was to make it easier to develop new features. > I > can tell you that I was at Amdahl at the time working on the 580. That was > definitely a major reason for it. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#29 New Opcodes http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#32 New Opcodes http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#33 New Opcodes http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#35 New Opcodes well, how should i have phrased it? ... i would run into lots people ... including at the monthly SLAC meetings ... and frequently be asked for advice ... there was lots of issues about not divulging confidences ... even confidences for companies i didn't work for. complicating things, i had a nearly complete set of individually serial numbered (candy striped) 811 documents (i.e. architecture documents named for their nov78 date). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
