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From: urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 44-bit 370 virtual addressing
Message-ID: <4659@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 16:11:49 GMT
References: <488@taux01.UUCP> <1988Feb22.194344.18804@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Summary: expound please.


  In answer to 
> > Anyone got hard facts on what the ESA/370 architecture looks like?
  
 henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> 
> Long odds it looks a lot like an 8086.  Barf.
> -- 

I would appreciate it if Mr. Spencer would expound more fully
on the details of the ESA extensions, and point out the similarities
with the (Intel?) 8086.

My only information so far is from reading the IBM customer announce
ment letters of February 16, and some comments on what was presented
at the Supercomputer Conference last summer.

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