Talk:IBM Basic assembly language and successors: Difference between revisions

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I love the Execute instruction. You could actually write a very complex program on a 16K machine. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/24.207.255.169|24.207.255.169]] ([[User talk:24.207.255.169|talk]]) 02:49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

There is a lot to be written about IBM System/360 and its successors. The jumps to 31 and 64 bit addressing. The migration of system calls from SVC (Supervisor Call) instructions, with the overhead of the interrupt handler to PC, especially for in-address-space services such as storage management. The evolution of secondary address spaces. Count Key Data disks vs fixed block (and the emulation issues). It goes on. One day…

[[User:Jhlister|Jhlister]] ([[User talk:Jhlister|talk]]) 00:56, 12 February 2010 (UTC)