In <51cb818a.2060...@t-online.de>, on 06/27/2013
   at 02:04 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> said:

>I believe that in OS/360's time the designers then couldn't do much
>better.

Due to management, not to technology.

>When I first met the IBM world (in 1982), I was kind of impressed 
>by the  simple and clean structure of the OS linkage conventions, 
>and by the fact, that every language could call the other.

There has never been a release with ILC among C, COBOL, FORTRAN,
Pascal and PL/I.

>0C8 abends in the PSW program mask

Don't confuse a program interrupt with an ABEND. You only get an ABEND
if there is no [E]SPIE for overflow.

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