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Article #1097Re: Multi-punches on IBM 026
From: holl... The Polymath
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1990 02:09
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1990 02:09
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In article <67...@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> to...@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
}In article <1990Jan22.152652.7636@virtech.uucp> jje@virtech.uucp (Jeremy J. Epstein) writes:
}>Also, on IBM 360s (and hence on all 370 architecture systems) the
}>op code for multiply was 5C, which was also the EBCDIC for '*'. ...
}>It sure helped in debugging
}>programs 'cause you could look in the ASCII dump for your multiply
} ^^^
}
}actually, you would be better off looking in an EBCDIC dump!
Actually, you'd both be better off looking in a hex dump. Is there any
other kind? (-:
I remember the first (and last) time I requested a full diagnostic dump of
one of my 370 assembler class programs, just to see what would happen. A
two inch stack of paper and it blew my DP lab budget (had to buy more).
Ouch! (-:
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!philmtl!philabs!ttidca!hollombe From: holl...@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Multi-punches on IBM 026 Keywords: 12-6-8? Message-ID: <9319@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 25 Jan 90 02:09:47 GMT References: <1990Jan22.152652.7636@virtech.uucp> <6740@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Reply-To: holl...@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 24 Posted: Thu Jan 25 03:09:47 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit