+1 Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@listserv..ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Poitras Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AMODE 32 In article <8891162166296907.wa.mutazilahgmail....@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 13:55:30 +0300, Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> wrote: > >What problem would this solve? > It would set the long-term model for the > mainframe, instead of being stuck with > 24/31-bit software for eternity. > >This would be of zero use for existing applications, > I don't agree. Existing applications can be > modified to be 32-bit clean and have maximum > possible address space as per 32-bit. > > and new applications should simply use 64 bit. > I don't agree that all new applications should > be 64 bit. That is overkill. 32-bit/4 GiB should > be enough for almost all commercial applications. > BFN. Paul. When you brought this up a year ago, I don't think you convinced anyone that this was a useful change or that IBM should reasonably spend dollars doing it. I doubt much has changed since then to improve your chances. -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
