On 18 February 2014 18:39, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > on 02/18/2014 at 01:47 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> said: > >>Indeed this is the way conditional execution and branching works (and >>has always worked) in channel programs. > > No.
"No" what? > Every generation believes that it invented sex, I think we need a counter for your yearly use of this cliché, and another for the "PKB"s. But will a halfword be big enough...? > but the S/360 was not the first boy on the block. The business with Status > Modifier came > in with S/360, but there were conditional branches in channel programs > before that. I didn't suggest, let alone say, anything counter to this. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN