Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: > 1. AIX/370 and IX/370 ran on older S/370 processorsl it wouldn't > take much to get them up on zSeries if the source code were > still around and somebody cared.
aix/370 was port from ucla's locus (different heritage than the power aix, which was a at&t unix ... originally done by the company that had been contracted to do pc/ix). it was a package with both aix/370 and aix/ps2. the acis organization in palo alto (adjacent to the palo alto science center) was working with a number of west coast universities. one of the earlier ports they started on was bsd for 370. however that got retargeted to the pc/rt (as an alternative to austin's aix) and called aos. numerous posts on 801, aix, romp, rios, power, power/pc, somerset, fort knox, etc http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801 they (acis) were also working with ucla's locus and had early ports to series/1 and some motorola 68k machines before starting on the 370 (and ps2) ports that became aix/370 and aix/ps2. in some sense this was the academic/university flavor of the more mainstream SAA ... aka in much of its efforts, getting PCs applications running on the backend mainframe and attempting to stuff the client/server genii back in the bottle. locus in addition to providing distributed network filesystem ... ala nfs and afs ... provided local file caching (ala afs) ... but afs only provided "full" file caching ... while locus also supported partial file caching. locus also provided process migration ... both between machines of the same architecture ... but also between machines of different architectures (modulo some caveats about equivalent executable binaries being available for the different architectures). in some of the early OSF and DCE meetings ... you saw CMU andrew people and UCLA locus people represented (in addition to MIT project athena people ... for things like kerberos). for some random topic drift, misc. posts concerning kerberos (and pk-init draft) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#kerberos misc. past postings with some SAA reference ... especially when we had created 3-tier architecture and pitching it in customer executive briefings (and were taken some amount of grief from the SAA as well as t/r factions) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#saa also some postings about relationship between SAA and trying to return to more of the thin-client, terminal emulation paradigm http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation at the time that we were taken all of the hits from the SAA forces for doing the 3-tier architecture stuff ... the guy promoted to head up SAA efforts had been somebody i had worked with in Endicott on ecps microcode (originally for the 370/148). a few misc. past posts discussing ecps vm microcode assist http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#27 370 ECPS VM microcode assist http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#28 370 ECPS VM microcode assist http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#43 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#47 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#52 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#54 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#56 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
