Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 07/06/2011 08:34:28 AM:
> And just why do we use the word "grande" to describe machine > instructions that operate on 64-bit addresses and which have the > letter "G" somewhere in the op code? When did IBM make that > official? Why not "gargantuan" or "ginormous"? lol I first heard the term "grande" used by Bob Rogers in his "What You Do When You're a CPU" SHARE presentation (2004). Regards, John K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
