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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE IBM
- Message-ID: <184380@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:35:15 GMT
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- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Nov18.203029.18985@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jgriffit@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jonathan Griffitts) writes:
- >
- >Actually, this is not strictly true.
- >
- >Counterexample: the 360 model 20, which implemented only a subset of the
- >360 instruction set. As I recall, it did not support fullword operations
- >(halfword only), nor packed BCD memory-to-memory stuff, nor other 'fancy'
- >operations. It was basically just a 16-bit minicomputer instruction set.
- >
- Yes, but the 360/20 WAS a special case. Although it was "upward
- compatible", the only thing it could REALLY do usefully was run
- HASP.
-
- It had slightly less compute-horsepower than the keyboard on most
- modern terminals...
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