> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:50 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: zEnterprise - new PoPS? > > ----------------------------------------<snip>---------------- > ----------------------- > I was really "excited" by the "conditional load/store" which > I guess is > similar to the compare and branch instructions. I don't know if they > will combine a "compare and load/store" or do a load/store > based on the > existing CC from a previous instruction. I remember a RISC > processor of > some sort where every instruction was conditional. On the z, > that would > cost 4 bits per instruction if the mask were encoded like in > a branch. I > wonder how that would affect efficiency and pipelining? > ---------------------------------------<unsnip>--------------- > ----------------------- > I don't care who calls it what, but PLEASE, ANYONE, send me a copy of > the PoPs manual as a E-Mail ttachment as soon as you can get > a grip on > it. I'm stuck in a dessert here, with very poor access to > anything. :-( > > Rick
I wouldn't mind being stuck in a dessert. Preferrably one with chocolate. Or did you mean desert? -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
