[rescue] Mac Appliance

Brian Hechinger rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 3 20:39:29 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:33:24PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > 
> > Don't IBM mainframes use segmented addressing?  Is it also *BARF*?  If
> > not, what is the difference?
> 
>   I don't know.  I've never programmed an IBM mainframe in assembler.
> I'm just now getting into studying them.

no segmented addressing, at least not in userspace, god only knows what goes
on in the OS/VM portions though. :)

>   I will tell you this, however...I do NOT like segmented addressing,
> and if IBM mainframes have it, then that will be something that I do
> not like about them. :)

nope, you can't add that to your list. :)

-brian



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