On Thu, 9 May 2024 15:01:28 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
>    ...
>Well, obviously in binary it's 01010111011000011000 and...ok, not that. BUT I 
>did multiply it by 60 and got 21,474,720--which is suspiciously close in 
>digits (if not in scale) to 2**31, 2,147,483,648. Since classic timer units 
>are close to microseconds, this seems likely to be the source of the limit, no?
>
I thought a classic timer unit was one second/300.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_architecture>

Such things tend to endure for compatibility, but I don't
know that it appears in GUPI.

-- 
gil

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Reply via email to