20 Aug
2006
20 Aug
'06
1:18 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:22:43 -0700, jim stephens
<jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> wrote:
William Donzelli wrote:
can you elaborate, or point to a web page? thanks
I wasn't aware that Intel had anything to do with the AS/400
architecture :-)
The iAPX432 was an interesting Intel failure of the '80s which
provided the tools to layout subsequent Intel devices.
<http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/intel/iapx432/> is a
good read on the beast.
An detailed overview of the architecture: <http://
www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/capabook/Chapter9.pdf>
(Part of an interesting book on Capability-Based Computer Systems - a
whole other thread... <http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/
capabook/>)
I remember salivating over the chip system when it came out until I
got sticker shock.
CRC
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There
were a lot of good ideas in the iAPX432, anybody knows, if
they
actually were used on any OS ?
AS/400. Properly.