Book offer

Philip Belben philip at axeside.co.uk
Thu Aug 21 14:34:30 CDT 2008


>> I have sitting here in front of me a book,  "Assembler for COBOL Programmers",
>> by one Hank Murphy.  "MVS" and "VM" also appear on the cover.  Copyright date
>> is 1991.  ISBN and other whatnot or more details available on request.
> 
> Is it about intel x86 assembly language, or mainframe (360?) assembler?

MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) and VM (Virtual Machine) were S/370 
things, iirc, not S/360.  (And certainly not 80x86!)  In fact I think 
MVS needed something quite big like a 3081 to run it.  370/XA?


Philip.


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