My mistake...it was my impression that
z/Architecture is very similar
to that of ESA/390, more so than the other evolutionary steps in the
S/360->S/390 family architectures.
64-bit addressing, twice as many instruction formats. That's a pretty big
change. The change from ESA/370 to ESA/390 wasn't that drastic.
Ok, I must've been thinking of something else. The original point
stands, however, that these are mainframe architectures.
Definitely.
Peace... Sridhar