20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
12:11 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
This just dawned on me: perhaps Rich was referring to AS/400 (System i).
That *does* run on POWER now.
Yes, but with different microcode (at least a superset of PPC), right?
I'm pretty sure the PowerAS stuff is part of the POWER spec now.
Peace... Sridhar
When IBM
wanted to port the IBM OS family to POWER, they did the same
thing. (Z, in your list above.)
Tangentially relevant...
I wonder how many S/360 machines spent their entire operating life
running in 1401 or 7080 emulation mode?