Quote: the IBM 360 has a systematic architecture; condition code, registers, memory, 8-bit bytes, 32-bit integers, 32 and 64-bit reals, two's complement

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At any time, the state of the [IBM 360] processor is described by a sequence of bits called the … executed instruction, and a quantity which is called … [p.40] cells. … The types of registers are: (a) integer or … (a sequence of 64 bits). … The types of simple values and simple cells … of 16 bits = 2 bytes, interpreted as … = 4 bytes … ) (d) real … (e) long real … [p. 68] the relatively systematic architecture of the 360 …   Google-1   Google-2

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