It was, but Binyamin has a good point.  I didn't consider that FLIH would
be invoked in real mode, so the hypothetical data-space code could
theoretically survive until or unless the system turns DAT on for something
other than directly resuming your code.

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Tom Marchant <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:24:04 +0300, Binyamin Dissen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:04:10 -0400 Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >:>My understanding is that a "data space" is a z/OS construction, the
> >:>hardware has no such concept.  There's no reason a "dataspace" couldn't
> >:>execute instructions as far as the hardware is concerned.  Just connect
> the
> >:>DAT tables as the primary and fire away.  Of course, you'd be
> programming
> >:>on the bare metal, with absolutely no OS support; implying the next
> >:>interrupt would blow you away.
> >
> >No more on the "bare" metal than any other code.
>
> I think that Steve's point was that there would be no system services
> available.
>
> >Interrupts do not use the
> >page0 based off of the STO (whichever) but use the absolute address in the
> >prefix register.
>
> The storing and fetching of old and new PSW use addresses in real page
> zero, not virtual page 0, so you are correct, the "STO" (which may not be
> a Segment-table origin) is not relevant.
>
> ALL references to real page 0 and 1 are transformed by prefixing to obtain
> the absolute address. Similarly, all references to the real page
> identified by
> the prefix register and the following page are transformed to absolute
> pages 0 and 1.
>
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> Tom Marchant
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