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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Arm ldaxr / stxr loop question
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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@clueful.co.uk> schrieb:
> On 2024-11-10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 01:26:22 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>>
>>> It reads better without explanation ...
>>
>> Reminds me of the “EIEIO” instruction from IBM POWER (or was it only 
>> PowerPC).
>>
>> Can anybody find any other example of any IBM engineer ever having a sense 
>> of humour? Ever?
>
> One of the resource types in JES2, the batch subsystem for z/OS, is
> BERT ("Block Extension Reuse Table") and needs some sizing/tuning by
> the sysprog. Not too noticeable as humourous but for low-level use
> from Assembler some of the macros which manipulate them allow you to
> (1) copy one into memory, i.e. "Deliver Or Get" a BERT
> (2) define a hook to get control when a BERT is released, i.e
> "Do It Later" for a BERT release.
> (3) generate a control block for a related data area, i.e. a
> "Collector Attribute Table" for BERTs.
>
> These macros are
> (1) $DOGBERT
> (2) $DILBERT
> (3) $CATBERT

Do you know if these macros existed before 1993, when Dilbert was
first released?