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Growth path: The initial pre-virtual-memory features introduced by S/370 should be, and now are, discussed in the IBM System/370 article.
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The IBM System/360 architecture was described as having been "extended, but not redesigned, for System/370."<ref name=IBMarc.165/>
 
The 370 introduced some new instructions, such as MOVE CHARACTER LONG ('''MVCL''') and COMPARE CHARACTER LONG ('''CLCL'''),
thereby permitting operations on up to 2^24-1 bytes (16 MB), vs. the 256-byte limits on the 360's MVC and CLC.<ref>http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~byrnes/csci360/notes/360ex.htm</ref>
,<ref>http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/tcmwebpage/timeline/chap51_ibm370_cs2.pdf</ref> but lacked a
[[Memory management unit|DAT box]].
 
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