Dan, really thank you for your effort.
Maybe this will light me up something on vector facilities (it depends on my own mips :D). Best regards. Max Il giorno mer 29 set 2021 alle ore 06:06 Dan Greiner <[email protected]> ha scritto: > I have put together a series of PowerPoint files illustrating the > operation of the vector-facility instructions ... a sort of graphic-novel > version of Chapters 21-25 of the PoO. Since the Assembler List doesn't > accept file uploads, you can find the material on my Google drive: > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O_RWJJGMX-tLR0AxEYk4QARxJhi_0MVV/view?usp=sharing > > Background: > Although I edited much of the vector-facility material that was > incorporated into the z13 z/Architecture Principles of Operation back in > 2015, I was not the engineer responsible for the material, and I never > bothered to study it very closely. Since I retired in 2017, I've been > looking more closely, and recently I started scribbling some notes on a few > instructions that puzzled me ... which turned into a few PowerPoint slides > ... which eventually turned into a 300+ slide opus. > > The PowerPoint files were prepared using a template that I've used in the > past for presentations at SHARE conferences. Like other presentations > illustrating new architecture, the slides make extensive use of animation > to illustrate the operation and data flow. So, they are best viewed in > slide-show mode. However, the real meat of the material is in the presenter > notes for each slide (with a two monitors, you can see both > simultaneously). > > There are separate PowerPoint files including an introduction, and a file > for each chapter of the PoO containing vector instructions (7, and 21-25). > In the Chapter 21 file, there are separate slides illustrating the > operation of an instruction with each element size. By the time I got to > Chapter 22, my carpals were acting up, so the slides are mostly limited to > a single element size. > At the end of a SHARE presentation, I would (time permitting) solicit > questions from the audience, and extended discussions might continue at the > SHARE Committee for Informal Discussions (SCIDs, a.k.a. an open bar). > Considering the content of these slides, it would likely take days to > present one chapter's worth ... by which time, the SCIDs would have long > since run out of liquor before any interesting questions could be posed. > > As it is unlikely this material will make it to the SHARE agenda any time > soon, I thought I'd just share it directly. You are welcome to use it for > your own enlightenment, but I will have strong words with anyone who tries > to make a buck off of it. > > As one might expect, much of the development involved a lot of > copy-and-paste operations on a PC, so there may be a few copy-and-paste > type of errors lurking about. If you have questions or meaningful comments > as to clarity or accuracy, you're welcome to contact me via email. However, > is you simply don't like the fonts, colors, or animation ... well ... have > a nice day. >
