I am the started writing Assembler on a 360/20....I have seen Gil -- I am the started writing Assembler on a 360/20....I have seen BASR and know how it is used but dont use it much at all. Scott J Ford www.identityforge.com
________________________________ From: Gilbert Saint-Flour <usenet5...@yahoo.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:24:21 AM Subject: Re: Assembler Question - AMODE=24 On Tuesday 10 February 2009 15:50, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: > And, almost always, I code BAL/BALR and rarely BAS/BASR. > I started coding assembler on a 360/20 in 1972, so call that an old habit. The 360/20 was a 16-bit machine which had BAS/BASR, which I used a lot at the time. The 360/20 did not have BAL/BALR which I started to use on 370 systems in 1975. IIRC, early 370 systems didn't have BAS/BASR, which were added to XA systems. Sorry for the error. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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