David, One evening in the machine room where I worked, I saw a listings binder sitting on top of a 370/145. As always curious, I took a peek at the title. It included the words "370 Emulation". My immediate reaction was to think "What are you really?", sufficiently strong a reaction that I probably said it out load :-)
Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Speake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 15 February, 2006 1:56 AM Subject: Re: Mainframe Jobs Going Away > This stimulates. Why should they not be able to run > UNIX/LINEX/AS400/Alpha-VMS or even Windows on Z chips without Z/OS or VM. I > have no idea what the instruction set burned into the metal is like nor how > I/O is really done at the hardware level. The ONLY metal instruction I know > of is SIE and I saw that one here less than a month ago. Does only the > milli/micro/nano code have to change for it to pretend to be anything > desired? Does this level resemble S/360 decedents POP instructions at all? I > saw some S/370 micro code listings about 30 years ago, but... For all I know > the Z chips have the same "metal" instruction set as the Pentium X/Y/Z > whatever. Pointers desired and apreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
