On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:24:51 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:

>The transition was from 24- to 31-bit addressing.  Apart from this quibble,
> Paul is right here.  "Unused" fields should be initialized innocuously
>and, usually, marked as reserved.  (From time to time there is of course a
>case for making user fields available in control blocks.)
> 
My use of 32- rather tnan 31- was quite deliberate.  Had bit 0 not been
pervasively exploited as a flag, 32-bit addressing could have been
accomplished easily.

-- gil

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