In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 12/15/2008
at 06:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>But, should the JCL CI be updated so when I code REGION=16385K I get
>16,385,000 bytes (rounded up to a page boundary), And when I code
>REGION=16385KI I get 16385x1024?
I'd say that a first phase should be to put out an I level message
suggesting the use of the new units, continuing to interpret
REGION=16385K as REGION=16385KI. Any new keywords should use the new
units from the get go.
>OTOH, I shudder whenever I read in the PoOp that bit 31 of
>the TOD clock toggles once per megamicrosecond (sic, IIRC).
No worse than giving disk sizes in units of 1,024,000 bytes :-(
--
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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