Path: ...!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine 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) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 13:09:09 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="9522"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Bytes: 2065 Lines: 22 According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro : >On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 01:02:07 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote: > >> According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro : >>> >>>> 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. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly