Re: Offload from the AS/400

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>BTW, my 10 year old Sys/38 program that was 16? bits, became 32 on the
400, and is now RISC-64, >what are the advantages really to more bits,
except that it runs faster, and isn't that mostly because the >processors
are faster?


Uhhh,  actually the SYS/38 was always 48bit addressing (as well as the
first AS/400's)
Both always(Since '78)  have 128bit system pointers.
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