20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
6:45 a.m.
On 2/20/2012 12:38 AM, Mouse wrote:
I have no issues
with folks being pedantic, but [...] Well, if you don't mind folks being
pedantic...
...then surely you meant "machine code" rather than "assembler"?
I'd
be surprised if there's _any_ hardware that natively executes 370
_assembler_ code (but it'd be a pretty cool hack if there were!). Yep, I did.
It's a good distinction. What tripped me up is that the
common vernacular is to call is 370 assembler code, not 370 machine
code. I'm not sure why, but that's the term they use.
Jim
At least in
contemporary IT environments, a mainframe is defined as
a machine that will natively execute 370 assembler.
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