Supervisor Call instruction
HARDWARE INSTRUCTION IN THE SYSTEM/360 FAMILY OF IBM MAINFRAME
Supervisor call; Supervisor call instruction
A Supervisor Call instruction (SVC) is a hardware instruction used by the System/360 family of IBM mainframe computers up to contemporary zSeries, the Amdahl 470V/5, 470V/6, 470V/7, 470V/8, 580, 5880, 5990M, and 5990A, and others; Univac 90/60, 90/70 and 90/80, and possibly others; the Fujitsu M180 (UP)Assembler Instructions V1.3 User Guide, Fujitsu Solutions GmBH, https://bs2manuals.