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Article #2769Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
From: Piercarlo Grandi
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1989 18:35
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1989 18:35
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In article <17045@cfctech.UUCP> joel@cfctech.UUCP (Joel Lessenberry) writes: is anyone else out their interested in starting an AS/400 thread? It is IBM's most advanced system.. Single level storage Object Oriented Arch Context addressing Hi level machine Instruction set 64 bit logical addressing True complete I/D split, no chance for self modifying code Rumours exist that the AS/400 (nee S/38) is the result of putting Peter's Bishop dissertation (a landmark work) "Very large address spaces and garbage collection", MIT TR 107, in the hands of the same team that had designed the System/3 (arrgghh!). IMNHO the S/38 is a poor implementation of a great design. That it still is good is more a tribute to the great design than to the implementation skills of the System/3 "architects". -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!dcl-cs!aber-cs!emerald!pcg From: pcg@emerald.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS Message-ID: <PCG.89Oct22183540@emerald.cs.aber.ac.uk> Date: 22 Oct 89 18:35:40 GMT References: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1081@m3.mfci.UUCP> <35979@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <2450@odeon.ahse.cdc.com> <1633@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <17045@cfctech.UUCP> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 26 In-reply-to: joel@cfctech.UUCP's message of 19 Oct 89 16:06:18 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Wed Mar 15 1989 on emerald (berkeley-unix)