Well, this is what confused me.  OS/VS1 1.7 was released to run on the IBM 4300.
VS2 is multiple address spaces, vs VS1 is a single 16MB address space, correct?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_4300#Operating_systems

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 6:27 PM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:
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> mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) wrote:
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> >Well, XA+ machines only supported 4K pages / 1M segments and not 2K
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> >pages / 64K segments.  Then DAS and Access register additions.  The
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> >43xx series only supported a single virtual address space, like
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> >DOS/VSE.  3090s were the only processors to support Vector
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> >instructions, and op codes were re-used in z series.
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> What does this mean, "a single virtual address space"? VM ran fine on it, 
> with many virtual address spaces. Are you perhaps thinking of V=R/V=F? I 
> disremember whether 43xx supported those.
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> ...phsiii
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> P.S. "zSeries" (RIP)
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