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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ancient OS history, ARM is sort of channeling the IBM 360
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 13:09:09 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 01:02:07 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
>
>> According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>>>
>>>> Again, it depends.  For COBOL, you didn't have to specify anything.
>>>> The compiler set up everything for you for you, and it "just worked".
>>>
>>> Maybe it didn’t. Given the way locate-mode I/O is set up, it should
>>> automatically fall back to copy-mode if the conditions are not right.
>>> So maybe you were in fact using copy-mode, not locate-mode, most of the
>>> time, without realizing it.
>> 
>> You know, you could admit that just once you're wrong.
>
>Admit that you never checked whether locate mode was actually engaged or 
>not. You just assumed that it was.

Huh, you can't admit you're wrong.  Well, whatever.
-- 
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