Leap seconds

scale, e.g., that embodied in STCKE values, associated with them is itself monotone increasing, they need not be (as I made clear in an earlier post). John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Windows Live™ Groups: Create an o

Re: RACF p assword & id checkin g‏

itten badly and/or documented poorly would be helpful. Its effects will be like those of the usual American traffic engineer's no left turns sign: it will serve only to move the problem to another location. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 0172

to fold or not to fold

he, of course minuscule, acronym yaoic (yet another obsolescent|obsolete IBM convention). We will all take his point immediately, and in much briefer compass. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…mor

Definition of a Shannon (was Big Sorts)

ms of isotopically pure silicon-28 would have more, if still only tenuous, relevance to what we do. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to suspicious email. http://windowsliv

Re: Test...Please Acknowledge.

receipt acknowledgedJohn Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:19:57 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Test...Please Acknowledge.> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> > Thanks> _> LEGAL NOTICE> Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential> and

Re: procs and concatenations

passant, because another poster to this same thread had said that everyone but John Gilmore had judged that DSN=NULLFILE and DD DUMMY were equivalent, that they were not in fact equivalent, suggesting that my placeholder scheme illustrated one of the ways in which they are different. Now this

Re: procs and concatenations

differences between DUMMY and DSN=NULLFILE to an 'alert reader'.John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to suspicious email. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Ho

Re: leap seconds

how the algorithm works for such values. In general, of course, the smallest element in a table like T may be greater than some search argument value S; and in this case S has no glb in T and this procedure returns '0'b, false.Th

Re: COBOL abbreviated IF & message IGYPS2048-S‏

uctions that would make them incompatible with this newest, for the moment, COBOL. There is a moral here: Never infer unknown COBOL function or syntax from those of another, 'superior', better known statement-level procedural language

CICS Explorer

Tuesday's IBM announcements provided much rhetoric and some information about the new CICS Explorer facility, e.g., > CICS is a leader in transaction processing and, in conjunction > with z/OS and DB2®, delivers levels of performance, > availability, and security that are hard to match. To prep

Re: California's COBOL payroll system

My posting of Farber's comments on COBOL was of course a provocation, and he was certainly guilty of hyperbole: I personally know a number of unretired COBOL programmers. That conceded, Farber is not at idiot. Carnegie-Mellon has procedures in place to ensure that no idiot becomes a full pro

California's COBOL payroll system

I like David Farber's (of course impolitic) 'vacuum tubes' analogy. >From this morning's New York Times: But the California controller, John Chiang, says the state’s payroll system — which uses a programming throwback known as Cobol, or Common Business-Oriented Language — is so antiquated it

sensitivity and sensibility

case, is what is wanted in the current thread. Moreover, if, as in that thread, the negative form is needed, it is insensitive/insensitivity not nonsensitive/nonsensitivity or nonsensible/nonsensibility. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

David Caminer (1915-2008)

The Lyons Corner Shops predeceased him, and David Caminer has now joined them. One of the principal designers of LEO, the first business computer, he was a programmer of genius and an anomaly: Think, as a British obituary writer suggested, of McDonald's designing the Internet to get some noti

Arthur W. Burks, 1915-2008

Burks was the the last co-author, with von Neumann and Goldstine, of the first and still relevant programming-techniques paper; he also edited von Neumann's seminal (but unfinished) paper on self-reproducing machines for publication, extending the notion of reproduction to the inorganic. The h

Re: APAR acronym

exhibiting less and less patience with the effluvia of gratuitous, because radically uninformed, responses that my posts too often elicited. I now regret breaching my silence on this occasion; and I shall in the future try to exhibit even greater restraint, limiting myself to an occasi

APAR acronym

nally obsolescent, expansions with new, notionally more felicitous, ones is a longstanding one; and large conclusions drawn from a current expansion can thus be problematic. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817USA _ With Windows Liv

Re: Long translate (TR) instruction?

equirement for a running count of the number of bytes that remain to be translated. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:30:51 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Long translate (TR) instruction? > To

Joseph Weizenbaum, 1923-2008

; o it lends itself to the support of a naif, reductionist world view. All this Weizenbaum fought against, and no replacement figure of his stature is at hand. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Connect and share in new ways

Re: radix partition trees

han a traditional http://www.google.com search because it excludes (almost all of) the dreck. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html

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e.com search because it excludes (almost all of) the dreck. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Make distant family not so distant with Windows Vista® + Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/digitallife/keepintouch.mspx

Re: Bruce Black [passed away]

Taken all for all, I shall not see his like again. Bruce and I agreed about many of the deficiencies of this list; but he was less intolerant than I: He had larger human sympathies. [Subliterate, too generic [post] subject lines angered me, for example; he noted and deplored them without judg

Ave Atque Vale

Peter Hunkeler has suggested that I have been exhibiting too much (and growing) impatience here, and I must agree. Good luck to all of you. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Now you can see trouble…before he arrives http

Re: ways to update PS files?

required, in particular upon whether non-sequential processing is required. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ More photos, more messages, more storage—get 2GB with Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail

Re: ways to update a PS file?

ts content by reading and rewriting it. If in fact she was asking about MFUs my post was irrelevant. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel. http://trav

Re: Ways to update PS files?

pair of COBOL-callable HLASM subroutines would of course be easy to write.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid

Re: override a proc step

osing position, he tries to discredit it as a shabby rationalization of some hidden, always odious motive. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel.

Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47

called human resources---was unwilling to adjust his salary adequately, and a body snatcher found him within less than a year. Since peonage is now illegal in most of the world, new skills, however acquired, must be paid for. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: SYSPROG action makes STCKE unique

authorize my making the details of his situation public. When I receive this authorization, I will post a paraphrase of his problem and its remedy. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Now you can see trouble…before he arr

Re: override a proc step

declare 1 year_to_date based, 2 name . . . , 2 DOB . . . , . . . ; The "duplicate" identifiers 'name', 'DOB' are permitted because their fully qualified names, here current_month.name current_month.DOB year_to_date.name year_to_date.DOB are all unique.

Re: Sysprog Action Makes STCKE Unique

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E values are in fact unique; and my recent experience with several client sysprogs is that they don't do it because they are not yet aware that that they must. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Booking a flight? K

Re: override a proc step

with if one has the will to do so, and those who fail to comply with it ought not to complain when their lapses are consequential. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Learn.Laugh.Share. Reallivemoms is right place! http

Re: [subject added] Override a proc step

RC values. Note also that Paul Gilmartin's anxiety about the initial, i.e., start-of-job, return-code (RC) value, while it has a basis in formal logic, is gratuitous here. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Messenger

Re: Override a proc step

From p. 17-1 of z/OS V1R6.0 MVS JCL Reference, SA22-7597-08, where examples will be found: Use the IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF statement construct to conditionally execute job steps within a job. With apologies for the omitted subject-line text, John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA John

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From p. 17-1 of z/OS V1R6.0 MVS JCL Reference, Use the IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF statement construct to conditionally execute job steps within a job. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ A new home for Mom, no cleanup

Re: Override a proc step

everyone.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink

Re: question about the listserv

There is an Italian word, 'dietrologia', that I have mentioned here before. 'Dietro' means 'behind', both literally and figuratively, in Italian; and dietrologia is the pseudo-science of what is really going on in the world, what always sinister machinations

Re: KB vs KiB

ted. Each of us can, however, go forward using Ki (canonically pronounced kee-bee) where multiples of 2^10 = 1024 are intended or K instead where multiples of 10^3 = 1000. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Local listings,

Re: rotational position sensing (RPS)

licit value and less than x'ff' should be diagnosed. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ http://newlivehotmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: EBCDIC to HEX translation in Assembler?

You need a trivial table and a TROT (TRanslate One to Two) instruction loop. See p. 7-202 of the current Principles of Operation. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source

Re: regarding SDSF pgm

hread, did identify this problem. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ http://newlivehotmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article)

to generate much heat and no light (and should be killed). John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ http://liveearth.msn.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / si

Re: Stooped to What? And for Whom?

Famously, one may "stoop to conquer"; but here . . . ? John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ http://newlivehotmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Google-friendly posting

I see no merit in attempts to make IBM-MAIN Google-friendly, whatever exactly that may be. The newsgroup is derivative and should remain so. Equally, of course, practices that are gratuitously unfriendly to the newsgroup should be avoided, but I have never observed such a practice. John

Re: mark load module non-executable

sion 1 Release 4 Program Management which help you mark you module not executable: which I received in the usual way. (The newsgroup is fine for those who find in useful, but I do not myself look at it.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _

Re: mark load module non-executable

, REFERENCE(CODE) is coded for program objects containing executable code and REFERENCE(DATA) is coded for program objects that contain only data/tables. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Local listings, incredible imagery, an

Re: PL/I will rule the world . . . not

to do so. He often posts here, but he is also active on the PL/I list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ http://newlivehotmail.com -- Fo

Re: PL/I will rule the world . . . not

mple---are written largely in PL/I. If one must do list processing in a statement-level language PL/I is far and away the best one to use. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ http://newliveh

Re: the USS heresy

t or an acronym A. Sometimes many others will agree with him, but widespread disagreement with his judgment establishes ipso facto that t or A is ambiguous. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Make every IM count. Downl

Re: SVC vs APF and other 'privileged' code

functionality is inexcusable. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Hotmail to go? Get your Hotmail, news, sports and much more! http://mobile.msn.com -- For IBM

Re: Linkedit question

lpful to others who have similar problems when they encounter it is the archives. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Get a preview of Live Earth, the hottest event this summer - only on MSN http://liveearth

Save conventions (was Re: Check write-protected field )

which it is wise to save the contents of the floating-point registers too. The old rule---If I'm not going to use them I need not save them---is now too risky. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t miss your chan

Re: Is there a cost in switching AMODEs?

und this thread disconcerting. That AMODE changes must necessarily have significant overheads associated with them is, I still think, obvious. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best Web mai

Re: null-terminated strings (was 'non-standard mainframe languages')

ity. The null-terminated string is a species of 'language extension', crafted using the facilities native C makes available; and it is among the more ill-conceived of C's many ill-conceived features. (I, of course, am a PL/I-and-its-dialects bigot.) John Gilm

Re: date and time in JCL

ducing an HLASM macro definition to OUTPUT a pair of eight-character strings, and this is accomplished using a pair of created global character set symbols, say &(&dtoutid) and &(&tmoutid), which must have different licit set-symbol identifiers, supplied as the values of two keyw

Re: LRECL of spanned records

I suspect that you know why but disapprove: 32767 = 7 (mod 8) 32760 = 0 (mod 8) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Like the way Microsoft Office Outlook works? You’ll love Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine

Re: OT - the antikythera mechanism

. My (at best obsolescent) preoccupation was with encouraging others to read the piece in a printed copy of the New Yorker. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Make every IM count. Download Messenger and join the i’m Initiative

Re: Where did the acrinym "CLIP" come from?

eated synthetically instead, by beginning with the acronym and working back to a notional basal phrase. Still other acronyms---IBM does this repeatedly---are jacked up periodically to have another interpretive phrase inserted under them. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-181

OT - The antikythera mechanism

Pp. 94-102 of this week's New Yorker, that of 14 May 2007, contain an article by John Seabrook, Fragmentary knowledge: Was the antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?, that will richly repay the attention of anyone interested in this mechanism. John Gilmore Ashland, MA

Re: mark load module non-executable

ch contain only data and which I use heavily, as OL because they are not intended to be executable. (Attempts to execute them are always abortive/short-lived.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Need a break? Find your es

Re: PL/I

guages easy for undergraduates to construct; but the simplifications made possible by the fact that all non-assigment statements in PL/I have the same generic syntax are more important in non-toy contexts. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA ___

Re: Best practices for software delivery

about: It is that mainframe applications are, most of them, implemented gratuitously using circa-1970 (applications) technology. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA ! _ Mortgage rates near historic lows. Refinance $200,000 loan

Re: latest Principles of Operation

icult" language features being interdicted as "too complex" in many shops. It would be much better to interdict professional programming to anyone who cannot master all of the features of any of these SLPLs. John Gilmore Ashlan

Re: Counting occurrences of a string in loadlib

use of counts, c(A) and c(B), of the occurrences of the same substring S in each of them as a surrogate for a comparison operation. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Interest Rates NEAR 39yr LOWS! $430,000 Mortgage for

Many or few instructions?

it things must be done their way and only their way. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Download Messenger. Join the i’m Initiative. Help make a difference today. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=T

Re: Dirichlet

the same numbers of leaves. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050

Kendall's M/M/1 queueing model

In Kendall's notation an M/M/1 queue has a single channel, single server, Poisson arrival rate, exponential service time, unlimited population, and FIFO queue discipline. (The 'M' denotes Markovian.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA

re IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF

f their work or proposals for extending it. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Download Messenger. Join the i’m Initiative. Help make a difference today. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?sou

Re: duplicate temporary DSN

pecified as &&name on the DSNAME parameter gg 01 or, in a sysplex, the system identifier. ---end snip----- John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ It’s tax season, make sure to follow these few s

Re: What is a CPU second

I'm not prepared to defend the two-r variant of 'terminology' in any circumstances. It was ill-considered, a typo in fact. Moreover, I have no objection to 'engine'; but my strictures about CPU and Central Processing Unit stand. John Gilmore A

Re: What is a CPU second?

it did not, and IBM gave up on it. We are thus left with CP, Central Processor, which is at least inoffensive. In the upshot the traditional terms, CPU and Central Processing Unit, are now solecisms that should be avoided. Say and write CP or Central processor, even for a uniprocessor.

John W. Backus, 1924-2007

He is gone: He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Watch free concerts with Pink, Rod Stewart, Oasis and more. Visit MSN Presents today. http

Game-theoretic terminology

e than it was at the beginning. Poker is a zero-sum game. Many economic processes, those that create wealth, are positive-sum games. War is a negative-sum game. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Live Search Maps – find

Re: DB2 V9 z/OS GA (Was: What to do with extra storage on new z9)

release i. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Play Flexicon: the crossword game that feeds your brain. PLAY now for FREE.  http://zone.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon

Re: SFEB

Bill Fairchild's cynically framed advice is almost certainly apposite too; but it is just possible that---like an old one in E. M. Forster's short story---one of your own employees once wrote and installed an SVC. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 0172

Re: Download z/OS software protocols (was SMP/E packaging for RECEIVE ORDER?)

7;s Pacific-basin customers outside the US and Japan cannot get an 'entire newly-ordered product' in this way. (Here I am conjecturing more than I really know: My client in New Zealand cannot; and Shane in Australia cannot.) Why? John Gilmore Ashla

Re: IBM System/360 Operating Systems history

e the availability of virtual storage than after.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=66060

Re: literacy

Paul Gilmartin wrote: Likewise, I consider teaching Roman numerals a waste of time. I instead judge anyone who cannot read (and write) Roman numerals subliterate. John Gilmore _ Find a local pizza place, movie theater

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

My apologies to Kirk Talman for rechristening him Kurt without authlorization. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Mortgage rates as low as 4.625% - Refinance $150,000 loan for $579 a month. Intro*Terms http

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

; and o A simulator/emulator of the System/360, SUPPAK, not OS, ran of the 7090-4. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t miss your chance to WIN 10 hours of private jet travel from Microsoft® Office Live http

Re: Finding where a module is being loaded from

This is a complicated question that has been discussed here repeatedly. Look in the archives. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. http

Re: SLIP on GETMAIN

dynamic storage is being allocated and not freed. Misused heap storage is of course the likely, indeed all but certain culprit. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ FREE online classifieds from Windows Live Expo – buy and sell with

Re: SIO in SDSF vs read/write speed

Steve Thompson has now raised two of the three issues that need to be addressed if this thread is to get serious. What are the apparently implicit BUFSIZE=, BUFNO= and NCP= values being used? John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: getting control

There are no good, i.e., both usually effective and not easily circumvented, solutions of this problem, however important you may judge it to be. Shakespeare had the final word, long ago: Diseases desperate grown, Are by desperate remedies reliev'd, Or not at all. John Gilmore Ashlan

Re: SVCs (PC alternative)

l add only that recovery, always required in stacking PC routines, is provided for them in non-standard ways. This topic is discussed, very skimpily, in z/OS MVS Authorized Assembler Services, SA22-7608-04, pp. 18-8ff; but I remember having too much trouble getting the first such recovery routine

Re: SVCs

27;program call' rather than 'personal computer'.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ FREE online classifieds from Windows Live Expo – buy and sell with people you know http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwex0010

Re: user friendliness

dn't understand anyway. UF is inseparable from dumbed down content. This is perhaps---I'm not sure---regrettable. It certainly means that different kinds of manuals are needed for different kinds of people. John Gilmore A

antikythera device

For those of you who read German there is a heavily illustrated piece on this astonishing ancient Greek astronomical-navigation device in today's Die Zeit, under the rubric Wissen at http://www.zeit.de The pictures will indeed be of interest even to those of you who have kein Wort.

Re: security on development

ble public accounting firm, of which three were reasonable, although not very important, and 20 were preposterous; and the sour tone of this post is perhaps attributable to that experience. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _

Re: sort problem

Are we to understand that multiple blanks, x'40' in EBCDIC or x'20' in ASCII, are to be replaced by a single field separator (a comma in your example)? John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Get FREE

Re: special characters in passwords

make crucial use of bluffing. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Communicate instantly! Use your Hotmail address to sign into Windows Live Messenger now. http://get.live.com/messenger/ove

Re: Super Friday

overcoat on its rear seat when it stopped, said, "Follow me!", and continued his progression to Carnegie Hall. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Your Hotmail address already works to sign into Windows Live Messenger! G

Re: question about SVC 109

lity would indeed raise questions about the technical judgment of its designer, but to say this is not to say that there is any rationale for getting rid of most of those we have.) What was important about SVC 109 was its use a router in the fashion that is very well described in Bob Wright'

Re: Best ap[p]roach - IEANTRT+BALR or LINK

plied and managed by an IBM [sub]system. A single DSA so obtained can, as Chris of course pointed out, be sized to provide both a register-save area and any other LIFO storage that may be required. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA ___

Re: Check out Enigma of ancient world's computer is cracked at last

For those interested in more detail and some astonishing cross-sectional tomographic photos of what is inside this black box: http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ All-in-one security and

Re: Z9 CPU "too fast" :-)

/extractable from them. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Stay up-to-date with your friends through the Windows Live Spaces friends list. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp007001msn/direct/01/?href=http

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

five all but vacuous posts in the 'moving LOADxx' thread already this morning are too many. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ MSN Shopping has everything on your holiday list. Get expert picks by style, age, and pr

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

on of using a 64 kibibyte table. They need to rethink these initial reactions: There are many situations in which they should do just that. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ View Athlete’s Collections with Live Sea

Re: Decimal FP (was: vendor JCL)

I'm afraid that there is no getting away from DFP and a designation of Decimal FP. It is already used heavily in the preliminary architecture document, SA23-2232-00; and parallelism with HFP (hexadecimal FP) and BFP (Binary FP) make it inescapable. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-181

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