I started reading that article but fell asleep about the third paragraph. I
now keep it in case I suffer from insomnia. What was the author smoking? 

:-)

-----Original Message-----
Neale Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>zArchitecture has PACKA and UNPKA opcodes to pack and unpack decimal.

For the record: that's "z/Architecture".  The architecture is considered
software, hence gets the "z".  Cf. z/VM, z/OS, z/VSE, but z900, z890, z9, et
al.

See current issue of z/Journal for details.
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      • ... Neale Ferguson
      • ... Rob van der Heij
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