IBM System 3 / was Re: VTL/Dutchess logic

William Donzelli wdonzelli at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 13:36:19 CDT 2010


> Just curious about the architecture: at the programmer's level did it look
> like a primarily 8-bit machine, or a 16-bit machine which always processed 2
> bytes in sequence, or it would best be described as mixed 8/16?

S/3s worked with strings of bytes in memory, basically. Very non-traditional.

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Will



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