> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 3:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ziip api for vendors > > Great find. Reading between the lines one could imagine that this > technology could be used to consolidate workloads from, > potentially, any > existing instruction set. This could increase the rate of > non-host server > consolidation significantly. > Sam
Yes, but I vaguely remember some system that we studied in college which had "writable control storage" where an authorized application could load in an alternate ISA, well actually it would extend the current ISA because you couldn't change the built-in instructions. But it would be interesting if you could have a generalized processor which could load microcode which would make a processor into a pSeries or an x86_64. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
