In <7935647633061500.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 04/20/2015 at 09:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> said:
>I'm a skeptic about Postel's Principle. Google for MBZ. Your point on F zones is well taken, but given the card heritage IBM may effectively not had a choice there. >I'll even go so far as to say that if the original s/360 had raised >an addressing excption when bits 0-7 of a base or index register >were nonzero, transition from 24-bit to 32-bit addressing would >have been much facilitated. Big time. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN