On 4 March 2013 01:29, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote:
> They're sort of coming full circle. The programming team on OS/360 had to > start from scratch, and many had experience only on the 7094. The word > orientation shows in IEFSD095 (big letter routine) that did character > manipulation using word instructions, and almost no character instructions > (IIRC, they used an STC, but that was about it). > > Of course I may be doing them an injustice, and they might have found their > version to be faster on the early machines? Perhaps they were early RISC programmers... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
