The BPS "supervisor" took 2K, which left 6K for the "application" program. I never ran this way on an 8K model 30, but you were supposedly able to configure a model 30 with only 8K. The one I used had 16K. This left me with a whopping 14K for my application, which Dave Freeman once described to me as "oceans of core", so why was I having so much trouble getting all my logic in 14K, he wanted to know. :-)
And I used BAL, the Basic Assembler Language, which had many restrictions that the TOS and DOS assemblers did not. E.g., statement labels were limited to 6 characters. In those days I had to pay close attention to instruction lengths (not the same as path lengths). I was so relieved when we upgraded to a 64K machine with DOS/360. Then all I had to care about was instruction timings. Now that was OCEANS of core compared to the 16K machine. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 6:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: History of Hard-coded Offsets (Was: TSSO problems) In <77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343c49...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com>, on 07/20/2010 at 03:31 PM, Bill Fairchild <bi...@mainstar.com> said: >The Assembler I used in 1966 ran in 8K under BPS/360 Ah, so you're one of the few people on this list that actually did use BAL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
