In <[email protected]>, on 12/24/2015
   at 06:51 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:

>This is true so much that the z13 processors implement a kind of 
>"internal multiprogramming"

IBM calls it Simultaneous Multi-threading, except in PoOps where it is
just "Multithreading facility".

>so that one CPU internal thread can do something useful while 
>another thread is waiting for a storage reference.

Or waiting for other resources.
 
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