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From: mat@amdahl.UUCP (Mike Taylor)
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Subject: Re: IBM claim that 370 has "64 bit architecture"
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 11:49:59 EST
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> The ad copy refers to the product as providing ~ "the power of the 64 bit
> architecture of the System 370."
> 
> This strikes me as rather outrageous hype.  True, some of the IBM mainframe
> implementations of the 370 architecture fetch 64 bits of data at a time (if
> not more.)   But how the heck can one reasonably describe the 370 architecture
> (which I consider to be the programmer's model) to be a "64 bit" one?

It *is* hype, but presumably refers to the fact that the architecture
can do floating point arithmetic on 64 bits. Or it is a
pre-announcement.
-- 
Mike Taylor                        ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,sun}!amdahl!mat

[ This may not reflect my opinion, let alone anyone else's.  ]