At least we still have decent technical publications from some vendors. Here's an example of what we might expect in 10 more years of dumbing down:
"The displacement for LA is, like, treated as, ya know, a 12-bit unsigned like binary integer. The, ya know, displacement for LAY is like treated as a totally 20-bit signed, like, binary integer. No storage, like, references for, ya know, operands take place, and the, like, address is not, like, inspected for access exceptions." [possible partial description of the Load Address instruction in an alternate universe in the near future] I'm like, ..... (10-second pause when speaking) .... ya know, just sayin'. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
