On 15 February 2013 21:33, Robin Vowels wrote:
> The S/360 is clearly definitely and unequivocably a CISC machine.
> Think of instructions like ED, EDMK, TR, TRT, PACK, UNPK, CVB, CVD,
> and of course all the decimal arithmetic instructions, all the
> character move and compare instructions (exce
Bernd,
I couldn't have said this better, bravo ! I have seen slam dunk testing in
some MF environments without planning, understanding or critical thinking
skills. Maybe it's my old age.
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll
I would mention in such a presentation that the MF is the only architecture
that can reasonably pe programmed in ASSEMBLER language today,
because the instruction set is clear and straightforward and defined in
such a way that it is at the same time well performing on the machine
and understandabl
From: glen herrmannsfeldt
Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2013 7:51 AM
Instructions are hard to count, though instruction count isn't a
very good way to determine CISCness.
RISC tends to have a small number of instruction lengths, often 1.
S/360 through z/ have three lengths. Not too CISCy,
The
