In <[email protected]>, on
04/20/2015
at 09:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> 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)
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