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)

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