On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 08:36, Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Regarding both of the anchor tables: slots 1009-1024 are reserved for
> customer usage (i.e., the owner of the system), in whatever way they
> choose. Those slots will never be "given out". I do agree that it's
> unfortunate that 30+ years ago I named the fields with "customer" in both
> the description and in the "C" of "CTBL". Perhaps I was thinking that
> ISV's are customers too.
>

It all depends on your point of view. Anyone who worked with IBM 37x5 comms
controllers and modems from the local telco will remember that both pieces
of equipment had a connector labelled something like "to customer's
equipment". The actual customer often owned neither.

Tony H.

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