Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

[Mike Ross]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 03:54:40PM +1300, Mike Ross wrote:
>> they were strictly 31-bit only.
>
> Dang, I suspected they were hobbled, but that's painful.
>
> mcl

Not in the least; when they were designed and built Z-Architecture
wasn't even a twinkle in a hardware engineers eye. Nothing hobbled
about them.

And by the time Z-Architecture did come alone it was no longer
necessary to use custom hardware to implement a usable mainframe CPU;
it could be emulated entirely in software - Hercules; Flex/ES; z/PDT
etc. - hence no 64-bit *hardware* successor to the P/390 was ever
built or seriously contemplated.

Mike

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