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Hi, Al:




Al Barsa* Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net> on 09/16/97 02:27:29 PM
> The legacy of RPG tells me that there is a NOMINAL performance in using the
> cycle.  The cycle was developed for small systems in the days of the
> System/3.  

Wasn't the RPG cycle developed for the S/360 before the days of S/3????

> On a System/3 Model 6, the difference in using the cycle, or not
> was the difference in getting the program to fit into 5K or not!!!!!

Hmmm... I remember the S/3 models as 8, 10, 12, 15, 15D.  The _super_
15D could run TWO programs CONCURRENTLY!!!!!   WOWSIE!!!!!  :^)
Anyway, what was the model 6?  Card only?  Were there others?

> Today, with systems up to 20 GB of memory, this is a nit.

And today's budgeting philosophy is: "use it up before someone else gets it."

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