In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/05/2007
at 12:03 PM, David Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Go back and look at your pops manuals for the last 10 years or so.
>Note the new instructions from one release to another. Those
>instructions were added to facilitate functionality that was
>incorporated into one or more pieces of software that IBM markets.
>If IBM is in control of the hardware that it's software runs on,
>than it is in IBM's own interest to continue to enhance the
>functionality of that hardware. If IBM's software executes on
>non-IBM hardware, then it is subject to the limitations of that
>hardware.
No it isn't; IBM is free to extend the architecture as it wishes, just
as it did when there was a healthy PCM industry. It's up to the 3rd
party vendor to keep up.
>Someone else is driving the train.
No, IBM is still driving the train, just as they were when, e.g.,
Amdahl, Fujitso, Hitachi, were selling compatible boxen.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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