June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
This chapter provides technical details about the mainframe, beyond the short introduction given in Chapter 2, “Introducing the Mainframe.” This chapter contains:
A discussion of the mainframe architecture
An overview of the (architecture-dependent) mainframe register set
An introduction to the program status word (PSW)
An introduction to the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)