On 5/1/2020 8:13 AM, Gary Weinhold wrote:
The programmer at our place who used this convention once said that he
learned much of his assembler programming style from JES2 source.
Does anyone know if JES2 used the *-* convention?
I just scanned SHASSRC on our system. It had 932
A PhD does not guaranty being informed. Look at the date on the FAP manual and
then ask how it could derive from the S/360.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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> The expression *-* in FAP (Fortran assembler) has an identical meaning
> to 360/370 assembler; however the usage in FAP does not appear to extend
> to denoting a length value in an instruction.
P. 4 refers to the count field.
> The use of *-* is a convention in S360/S370 assembler in some
>
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On 2020-05-01 10:59 a.m., Martin Ward wrote:
On 01/05/2020 05:07, Seymour J Metz wrote:
The usage precedes the S/360 by years; it dates to the 709 if not
before. See, e.g., the FAP manual on bitsavers.
Page number?
Gary Weinhold
Senior Application Architect
The expression *-* in FAP (Fortran assembler) has an identical meaning
to 360/370 assembler; however the usage in FAP does not appear to extend
to denoting a length value in an instruction.
The explanation by the professor appears to me to provide a helpful way
to assist students in learning the
On 01/05/2020 05:07, Seymour J Metz wrote:
The usage precedes the S/360 by years; it dates to the 709 if not
before. See, e.g., the FAP manual on bitsavers.
Page number?
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Martin
Dr Martin Ward | Email: mar...@gkc.org.uk | http://www.gkc.org.uk
G.K.Chesterton site:
The origin was explained to us as I described. As far as how back it goes
prior the timeframe I detailed, I am unable to say.
The instructor was a PhD, so I would not categorize him as uninformed.
In addition to the S/360 that we had at the university, we had an IBM 1620,
an IBM 709x (I don't
