[email protected] (Charles Mills) writes: > I could picture a very 21st century, "electronic" PoP that presented an > "index" to the detailed descriptions in the form of a table that could be > sorted on name, on mnemonic, on hex opcode, etc.
triva ... PoPs was one of first major IBM pub to move to CMS script. CTSS runoff had been ported to CMS "script" at the science center in the mid-60s ... then in 1969, GML was invented at the science center and GML tag processing added to script. Issue for PoPs. was that it was subset of the architecture "redbook" (for distribution in red 3-ring binder). File had conditional directives and CMS script command line options would output either full "redbook" or the Pops subset (i.e. whole sections that were architecture only and each instruction might have architecture and/or engineering notes about trade-offs, implementation issues, etc). I never did PoPs ... but did help with ios3270 "greedcard" ... a q&d to HTML here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html Over 30yrs ago, I did do a rex replacement for IPCS (at a time when it was huge amount of assembler) ... my original object was in less than half time over 3months ... re-implement IPCS with ten times the function and ten times the performance (little slight of hand going from assembler to rex). For this, I did do the problem determination and abend code manual ... converting it to fully index, with (dumprx) being able to pick pieces from the manual on the fly. ... misc. past posts mentioning dumprx http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumpx dumprx rex could be run either by itself or within xedit ... so had full capability of xedit to operate. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
