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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE IBM
- Message-ID: <184320@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:21:52 GMT
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- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
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- In article <STEVEV.92Nov17104240@miser.uoregon.edu> stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
- >
- >I suspect that the questions apply to IBM's most famous series of
- >machines, the 360/370 series. If you thought them placing
- >increasingly souped-up versions of the 8088 in IBM PCs was bad,
- >note that the 360/370 series has been using the same instruction
- >set and processor architecture for nearly _30 years_. IBM's
- >top-end mainframes (like the 3090) still run IBM 360 programs in
- >binary form.
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- To paraphrase a nameless IBM product planner...'
-
- The only reason God was able to create the universe in 6 days
- was that there was no install base.
-