On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 09:33:46 -0500, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

>>The BSM instruction can use bit x'4000 0000'
>>to get/set AM32.
>
>No, it can't, for compatibility reasons.

What are you referring to? I don't see
any compatibility problem.

>>This introduces a 1 GiB
>>restriction where the module should not
>>be loaded above if it needs to switch
>>AMODEs to call READ etc.
>
>Yeah. You want to double the available storage,
>yet halve the storage available to programs.

The storage available to programs is
doubled, not halved.

It is just the load module that needs
to reside below 1 GiB, and even then,
that's only if READ hasn't been updated
to be AM32-clean.

BFN. Paul.

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