On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 13:55:30 +0300, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> wrote:
>What problem would this solve? It would set the long-term model for the mainframe, instead of being stuck with 24/31-bit software for eternity. >This would be of zero use for existing applications, I don't agree. Existing applications can be modified to be 32-bit clean and have maximum possible address space as per 32-bit. > and new applications should simply use 64 bit. I don't agree that all new applications should be 64 bit. That is overkill. 32-bit/4 GiB should be enough for almost all commercial applications. BFN. Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
