On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:58:03 -0800, Anne & Lynn Wheeler  wrote:
>
>> Decades ago, I had experimented with similar techniques, even so far as
>> paired +- RLDs.  In the course of that, I discovered that CMS obeys its
>> own rules.  If I had unresolved WXTRN + absolute offset, it got relocated
>> anyway because CMS assumed the nonzero result meant the WXTRN was
>> resolved.
>
>re:
>http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#98 A Christmassy PL/I tale
>http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#101 Multitasking question
>
>part of the issue was that CMS had a 64kbyte os/360 system services
>simulation implementation. With the introduction of MVS ... and its
>8mbyte kernel image ... there was a joke that CMS 64kbyte os/360 system
>services simulation was significantly more effective than the MVS 8mbyte
>os/360 system services simulation.
>
If by "more effective" one means that CMS produced incorrect results faster
than OS produced correct results ...

And OS emulation I/O ignored Length Indicate reported by CP.

And OS emulation  failed to count the 4-byte RDW for RECFM=VB.

... but that made it plenty fast.

-- gil

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