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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: The 360 was a design landmark (long)
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Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 21:47:56 EDT
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> I was under the impression that most 370s did mundane payroll/bookkeeping
> stuff.  For those tasks, bcd string performance would seem to be paramount.

My recollection is that when you actually measure them, even COBOL programs
spend most of their time doing ordinary (non-bcd) instructions for overhead,
i/o control, addressing, etc.
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"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry