In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/19/2005
at 04:10 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>note that 370 instructions running close to hardware speed was
>already coming close to happening with high-end machines like 3033.
Wasn't that already true on the older 360/85?
>ibm eventually responded with pr/sm (on 3090) and then expanded it
>to multiple with LPARs (logical partitions). however, this was a
>much more difficult undertaking ... requiring implementation done
>directly in the 3090 microcode.
I thought that PR/SM was originally based on a modified CP from
VMF/470 R6. Or were you referring to the SIE instruction?
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