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I am doing a high (very high) level presentation for my managers who have no
MF experience. I want a simple slide. Something like:
IBM architecture is not RISC, there are nnn instructions.
nnn Privileged
nnn General
nnn Decimal
nnn Cryptographic
etc.
I've Googled and looked at some of the
Dave,
thank you for mentioning hlasm.com. There is no straightforward way of
counting instructions.
There are many ways to count them, many criteria by which to discern or
categorize them.
I have tried to present the instruction lists with options to
include/exclude various (sub)categories,
but
Instructions are hard to count, though instruction count isn't a
very good way to determine CISCness.
RISC tends to have a small number of instruction lengths, often 1.
S/360 through z/ have three lengths. Not too CISCy, but not RISC.
(VAX might have 14 or so, from one byte on up.)
RISC tends to
A link:
http://www.realworldtech.com/z196-mainframe/
Regards
Thomas Berg
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There are tables of instructions in Appendix B of the PrOps manual. You can
cut and paste into a text file, then open in Excel and do a convert text to
columns. I last did this in 2002, when there were 428 machine instructions.
I imagine it has escalated considerably since then.
The tables have
On 2/15/2013 2:57 PM, Thomas Berg wrote:
A link:
http://www.realworldtech.com/z196-mainframe/
Very nice. And page 3 answers part of the OPs question and
reframes the other parts (or could be used to do that).
Regards
Thomas Berg
From: glen herrmannsfeldt
Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2013 7:51 AM
Instructions are hard to count, though instruction count isn't a
very good way to determine CISCness.
RISC tends to have a small number of instruction lengths, often 1.
S/360 through z/ have three lengths. Not too CISCy,
The