In <CAE1XxDF9E2LM5RY8VbvnVUtJVYxr+M3FyTL_rQ+-f=u4bsu...@mail.gmail.com>, on 10/06/2012 at 08:49 AM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said:
>and he at once quite correct and utterly wrong. As usual, it depends >upon what "was available" is thought to mean. <http://www.yourdictionary.com/available>: Available describes someone or something that can be found, used or accessed. <http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/available>: 1 [not usually before noun] able to be obtained, taken, or used 2 [never before noun] not too busy to do something 3 not married or involved in a romantic relationship and therefore able to start a new relationship Nothing there about being free of charge. >There is and has "always" been a list of non-standard mainframe >instructions that IBM can make available for a [small] fee. You are at once quite correct and utterly wrong. As usual, it depends upon what "make available" is thought to mean. There is a list of RPQ options that IBM maintains, but IBM does not offer every option for every processor. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN