On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:16:46 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: > >I have been guilty of poking fun at some of the terminology used above >the bar, but that should not be misunderstood. I would have named >some things differently, but I have nothing but praise for the quality >of the things themselves. In particular, they cohere unexpectedly >well, making mostly reliable inferences about their behavior easy. > It appears that the designers have learned well from experience. I enthusiastically await the day when the bar is erased and programmers can code entirely RMODE(64), oblivious to any antiquated 31-bit and 24-bit constraints. (Yes; imagine 64-bit addressability to PARM.)
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