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Paul Gilmartin wrote:

| But no SVCs.  Probably no system facilities understand
| 64-bit addresses.

SVCs are at best obsolescent.  We all perforce use them, but when I am
beginning at square one I implement  only PC-based schemes.

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On 12/6/12, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> | But no SVCs.  Probably no system facilities understand
> | 64-bit addresses.
>
> SVCs are obsolescent.  We all perforce use them, but when I am beginning at
> sq
>
> On 12/6/12, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:09:37 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
>>
>>>I am wondering if z/OS 2.x will bring 64 bit address constants into
>>>the operating system so everything can run above the 2GB bar.
>>>
>> Ever so slowly.  I understand that 1.13 will let code run above the 4GiB
>> (not 2) bar.  (How does it get there?)  It can even tolerate interrupts
>> and
>> redispatch from them.  I suspect that from the developers' point that's
>> a major advance.  What goes in the IRB?  Where does it keep the
>> Grande OPSW?  But no SVCs.  Probably no system facilities understand
>> 64-bit addresses.  Likely the next step is SVCs, but the arguments will
>> still need to reside below (even like access methods yet).
>>
>> The software bloat juggernaut will force IBM's hand.
>>
>> -- gil
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