• z/Architecture, initially and briefly called ESA Modal Extensions (ESAME), is IBM's 64-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architecture...
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    IBM Z is a family name used by IBM for all of its z/Architecture mainframe computers. In July 2017, with another generation of products, the official family...
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    z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for IBM z/Architecture mainframes, introduced by IBM in October 2000. It derives from and is the successor to OS/390...
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  • one) for a total of 32 bits. In the present instances of the architecture (z/Architecture), the instruction address is 64 bits and the PSW itself is 128...
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    IBM released z/VM Version 7.3 which requires z/Architecture, implemented in IBM's EC12, BC12 and later models. OpenSolaris for System z PR/SM Time-sharing...
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  • 2015, Linux on IBM Z is only available as a 64-bit operating system compatible with z/Architecture mainframes. Previously Linux on IBM Z was also available...
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    and the System/370 architecture last used in the IBM 9370 low-end mainframe. ESA/390 was succeeded by the 64-bit z/Architecture in 2000. On September...
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  • instruction set architectures that have been retroactively labeled CISC are System/360 through z/Architecture, the PDP-11 and VAX architectures, and many others...
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  • System/370 architecture and System/390 architecture, there are 8-bit bytes, 16-bit halfwords, 32-bit words and 64-bit doublewords. The z/Architecture, which...
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    reducing clock speed; instead it inserts sleep state instructions. z/Architecture IBM Z Mainframe computer Hudson, Andrew (24 July 2023). "The IBM mainframe:...
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  • instance of CMS. The IBM Z family, introduced in 2000 with the z900, supports z/Architecture, which extends the architecture used by the System/390 mainframes...
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    System/390 was replaced with the zSeries (now called IBM Z). The zSeries mainframes introduced the 64-bit z/Architecture, the most significant design improvement...
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  • IBM System/360 architecture, the base address is a 24-bit value in a general register (extended in steps to 64 bits in z/Architecture), and the offset...
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    pertains to location 0-4095. "Prefixing in the z/Architecture Architectural Mode" (PDF). z/Architecture Principles of Operation (PDF) (Fourteenth ed.)...
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  • instruction set architectures in both their 32-bit and 64-bit editions; it has additionally been ported to PowerPC, and to IBM ESA/390 and z/Architecture, for use...
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  • support two-way simultaneous multithreading. The cores implement the CISC z/Architecture with a superscalar, out-of-order pipeline. New in z15 is an on-chip...
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    read/write/execute pages. As of the twelfth edition of the z/Architecture Principles of Operation, z/Architecture processors may support the Instruction-Execution...
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  • features to the architecture, e.g., DAS, S/370-XA, S/370-ESA, ESA/390, they added additional fields to the control registers. With z/Architecture, IBM doubled...
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    processors use the big-endian format. Solely big-endian architectures include the IBM z/Architecture and OpenRISC. The Datapoint 2200 used simple bit-serial...
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  • Next-Generation IBM System z Microprocessor. 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. doi:10.1109/ISSCC.2015.7062930. z/Architecture Principles of...
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    its first 64-bit z/Architecture mainframe, the zSeries z900. z/Architecture is a 64-bit version of the 32-bit ESA/390 architecture, a descendant of the...
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    Multi-core processor (category Computer architecture)
    quad-core z/Architecture processor, released in 2008. z196, a quad-core z/Architecture processor, released in 2010. zEC12, a six-core z/Architecture processor...
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    it. Hercules was the first mainframe emulator to incorporate 64-bit z/Architecture support. The emulator is written almost entirely in C. Its developers...
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  • flagged by the assembler if exceeded). This example is for IBM/360 or Z/Architecture assemblers and assumes a field of 100 bytes (at offset zero) is to be...
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  • In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a...
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  • CPU-level instructions are not proxied or executing against an emulated architecture since the guest OS or hardware is providing the environment for the applications...
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  • register in the x86 architecture, flags in the program status word (PSW) register in the IBM System/360 architecture through z/Architecture, and the application...
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  • compatible systems IBM System p and IBM Power Systems computers IBM z/Architecture mainframes CP/M computers based on the S-100 bus, maybe the earliest...
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    released Db2 13 for z/OS. "Data warehousing" was first mentioned in a 1988 IBM Systems Journal article entitled, "An Architecture for Business Information...
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  • convention, such as on the IBM System/360 through z/Architecture architecture and RISC architectures, or it may be a register that procedure call and return...
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