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Re: S/360 addressing, not Honeywell 200

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From: John Levine
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:29
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In article <p4l4so$17i$2...@dont-email.me>,
Charles Richmond  <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>On 1/27/2018 7:13 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
>> And the register to register version of the jump to subroutine instruction
>> allows a program to find its own address, needed to start loading its
>> base registers.
>
>Is this the "branch and link register" instruction (BALR)???

Yes, except on machines with shorter (360/20) and longer (360/67, and most recent
machines) addresses where you use BASR instead.

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Subject: Re: S/360 addressing, not Honeywell 200
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