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   Joe Monk to All   
   Re: PDOS/86   
   17 Jul 21 04:49:04   
   
   From: joemonk64@gmail.com   
      
   > That's not the issue being addressed. What happens when a   
   > single application wants to access more than 4 GiB of memory   
   > on the mainframe, and the memory is indeed available, but   
   > you only have 32-bit registers?   
      
   Youre joking right? Stop and think how we actually did it with 31-bit   
   addressing back in the MVS/XA days.   
      
   Physical memory is not a constraint...   
      
   Joe   
      
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