MVS didn't use 2KiB pages, so I never paid any attention to whether the 4341 or 
3081 had them, but MVS/XA required DAS. Access registers came later, on the 
3090, and were part of ESA.

The 4341 most definitely was not limited to a single address space; It ran 
MVS/SP 1.3 just fine.


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Well, XA+ machines only supported 4K pages / 1M segments and not 2K
pages / 64K segments.  Then DAS and Access register additions.  The
43xx series only supported a single virtual address space, like
DOS/VSE.  3090s were the only processors to support Vector
instructions, and op codes were re-used in z series.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 4:20 PM Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote:
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of things that prevented earlier
> operating systems from even IPLing on newer boxes. Such as z13 is the
> last processor to have ESA/390 mode. I also have it in my head that at
> some point there were changes to the page size and virtual storage
> tables that caused havoc.
>
> Tony Thigpen
>
> Seymour J Metz wrote on 9/1/20 3:30 PM:
> > Typically the new features reqiured by a level set were added over several 
> > generations, and each generation added more than one feature.
> >
> >
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> > Subject: Architectural Level Sets
> >
> > IBM has had several Architectural Level Set points where there were
> > significant changes to the CPU that prevented earlier operating systems
> > from running on them.
> >
> > What CPU's were involved with each level, and what was the real
> > underlying item changed on the CPU that forced a new level? (Let's keep
> > it limited to z990 and newer.)
> >
> >
> > Tony Thigpen
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