Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long Tom Schmidt wrote: See SA22-7832-06 for the EXRL

Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:17:24 -0600, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

Re: SPAM: Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip-- Why not also allow the EXreg instruction to execute UP TO 8 bytes worth of the register contents? In other words, if you have less than 6 byte instructions to execute (say a 2-byte plus a 6-byte instruction) why not allow BOTH of them to

Re: SPAM: Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Rick Fochtman wrote: Let's all quit trying to second-guess IBM and instead just wait a while. I'm certain that there will be additional upgrades as the z/10 goes through evolution. Let's see what time brings us. Customer dialog helps influence IBM's design and direction. If customers always

Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/01/2008 at 05:11 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm reminded of the PDP-6/10/20, There was no PDP-20. As I recall the DECSYSTEM-20 used a KL10. where the registers were memory mapped, or the bottom 16 words of memory were register mapped, depending on

Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-01 Thread Edward Jaffe
Tom Schmidt wrote: See SA22-7832-06 for the EXRL instruction. (I'm sure Ed's been aware for several months now, but the rest of us may be happy now.) Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard! People are already clamoring for additional forms of EXRL that can OR the mask with other than

Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-01 Thread Clark Morris
On 1 Mar 2008 10:59:02 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Tom Schmidt wrote: See SA22-7832-06 for the EXRL instruction. (I'm sure Ed's been aware for several months now, but the rest of us may be happy now.) Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard! People are already clamoring

Re: new Feb2008 zPOP: Execute Relative Long

2008-03-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:00:43 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard! People are already clamoring for additional forms of EXRL that can OR the mask with other than byte one of the target instruction! It never ends! :-) Why not just a facility that will OR an entire