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From: "John Homes" <John.Homes@eds.com>
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Subject: Re: S/390 (was Market pressures for more reliable software)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:27:59 +1200
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"Roedy Green" <roedy@mindprod.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:17:43 GMT, robin <robin_v@bigpond.nospam.com>
> wrote or quoted :
>
> >But when the second address is zero, it does not branch, and
> >the address of the next instruction is placed in the nominated
> >register.  (e.g., BALR 3,0)
>
>
> It is quite amazing that people can still remember this stuff.  I have
> not used it since the 70s.
>

Some of us are still using it..

    John Homes.