On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Harry Wahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Platform Solutions, Inc. had this technology and much more. Their > technology is now IBM's. > > Doesn't PSI does the opposite of what Mantissa claims to be working on? PSI runs z architecture on x86 hardware whereas Mantissa claims to run x86 architecture on z hardware. Combine the two and you could run Windows on z/VM on a x86 emulating a z machine. Sounds snappy :-) BTW: MacOS did this quite successfully when they switched from 68000 to Power architecture. You could run your 68000 binaries and they would be dynamically translated into a cache Power instructions. They did it again when they moved to x86. See: http://knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Mac_68K_emulator/ Of course, modern byte-code VMs use dynamic translation ("JIT") to translate frequently used byte codes into native machine instructions. Yet, it is still amazing how many people think that Java is still only "interpreted". Quoting from an Austin SHARE presentation on PHP: "Unlike Java or other interpretive language, PHP’s focus is to use the script to invoke “native” C subroutines that do the actual work at full speed" Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
