On 16Feb11:0945-0600, Mike Schwab wrote:

> >From A22-6821-0 S/360 Principle of Operations:
> 
> CONDITION CODE SETTINGS FOR FIXED-POINT ARITHMETIC
> x'00', x'01', x'10', x'11'
> 0 (equal) 1 (<0) 2 (>0) 3 (error, overflow)

Does anyone else (Google doesn't) remember the ELHO acronym?

Equal    - mask '8'
Low      - mask '4'
High     - mask '2'
Overflow - mask '1'

Back in the days of no extended mnemonic opcodes it was
quite the assembler programming aid.
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