On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 09:56 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
> while s/370 was limited to 24-bit addressing 
> until XA in 1982 or 1983 began to support 31-bit addressing, not 32-bit like 
> the 
> model 67.

I vaguely remember the dual-address-space-facility that began life just
before XA came around.  There was some exploitation of it in - I think -
MVS/SE2 (or was it SP1?).

Here's an interesting paper: "Development and attributes of
z/Architecture" from IBM's R&D Journal, July/September 2002:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2006/CompArch/documents/all/processors/ibm360/ibm-z-plambeck.pdf

-- 
David Andrews
A. Duda & Sons, Inc.
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