Michael Stack wrote:
At 06:05 PM 11/6/2007, you wrote:
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:56:07 -0000, Phil Payne wrote:
>I had a word with Gene Amdahl about it once - he said the word
'algebraic' in
the BXLE/BXH
>definition was the biggest mistake in the /360 design ...
...which makes one wonder: What was the second biggest mistake in
the /360 design?
--
Tom Schmidt
Madison, WI
No stack. I believe Amdahl said it himself.
(I don't take it personally.)
Perhaps my narrow focus as a software developer has dimmed my wits. But,
I consider the lack of a hardware stack to be _many_ orders of magnitude
more important than having used the word 'algebraic' in the BXLE/BXH
definition. ;-)
I would also add that -- with 21st century hindsight and certainly not a
design mistake per se -- it sure would have been lucky if they had
standardized on ASCII instead of EBCDIC!
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
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http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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