Re: Offload from the AS/400

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Carr wrote:

> Message text written by INTERNET:MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>
> >BTW, my 10 year old Sys/38 program that was 16? bits, became 32 on the
> 400, and is now RISC-64, >what are the advantages really to more bits,
> except that it runs faster, and isn't that mostly because the >processors
> are faster?
>
> Uhhh,  actually the SYS/38 was always 48bit addressing (as well as the
> first AS/400's)
> Both always(Since '78)  have 128bit system pointers.

Yeah, that's why I said 16?.  I never really coded on the Sys/38, I was only
about 16 (early 80's?) when it came out.  I was an operator (of sorts) during my
summers.  I also worked with a Series/1, many Sys/34's, and a shiny new Sys/36.

--
Art Tostaine, Jr.
Creative Computer Associates, Inc.
Parlin, NJ
atostaine_at_crecomp_dot_com


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