Author: leonid
Date: 03:52:45 11/03/99
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On November 02, 1999 at 21:10:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >On November 02, 1999 at 19:46:24, leonid wrote: >[snip] >>What are the main characteristics of those IBM/370? The speed and width of >>register. >The offshoot of the 360 (later 370) series is the IBM 3090, which you can get >today. I'd get an RS/6000 series instead I think, which is a different >instruction set. Registers were 32 bits with 24 bits useable at first, later >all 32 bits became usable (which caused a lot of problems for people who were >using the chummy hack of using the unused bits for their own purposes). > >Here is some BAL. You will probably figure out right away what it is doing: >http://www.netlib.org/go/ibmblas This is very interesting since the IBM computer 20 years ago was not a chalenge to our Pentium that everybody owns. This is why the next 64 bits computers should be a real feast for every chess programmer. The next 4 years should be the years of new excitement and development in chess programming. I hope that Intel will awake from his permanent sleep and finally will produce its long promisseed chip. AMD advancement sould contribute to this shining advent. Leonid.
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