Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PUCC.BITNET!Q4071 From: Q4071@PUCC.BITNET ("Interface Associates, Inc.") Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: (none) <8909202121.AA03959@jade.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <8909230502.AA17681@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 23 Sep 89 04:34:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion ListDistribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 >Subject: (none) >From: FEATS@VTVM1.BITNET >Date: 20 Sep 89 18:12:49 GMT - <8909202121.AA03959@jade.berkeley.edu> >Organization: The Internet > >I am fairly new to the world of channel programming and would like to >gather some reference material on the subject. I have tried to read I am replying because our news server is down. I have found little of much use. Struble and Rudd, along with most other standard texts, give a description of BASIC channel programming, but the real vagaries -- the commands special to each device -- are contained only in the component descriptions, so far as I know. The fact is that IBM is discouraging anyone other than vendors from doing CCW programming. The question is: are you interested in old style (370/SP) or new style (370/XA) programming? I think I have some stuff on the latter (IBM internal instruction material which is unclassified), which I can xerox and send you if you are willing to reimburse me for the cost. I am not sure where it is at the moment, but I am off to Houston for a three-month system programming contract, and should be unearthing it this weekend. If you are interested, E-mail me and I shall advise you of what I have and how long it is when I find it. I warn you that I may be a bit slow in responding, however. Sincerely, Robert A. West