> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Harry Wahl > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Old discussion about Windows running on a mainframe ( I > brought up) > > > > A more sensible approach would be to look at creating a Windows HAL > (hardware abstraction layer), or something conceptually similar, that > runs on z/Series. Historically, this is how Windows has been made to > run on different machine architectures. Of course, cooperative > development between IBM and Microsoft would be necessary. > > > > Another possibility is to exploit the Infiniband feature of the z/10. > This feature is profound in terms of 360-z/series evolution, but has > been largely ignored, so far. > > > > Infiniband attached external hardware products that expose x86 > architecture processors, from Intel or IBM itself (or maybe even Intel > Larrabee), is an ideal way to run Windows on IBM mainframes. > > > >
It seems to me that the obvious way to do this would be to build z86 on z in millicode. Then, the only real issue would be performance. An all millicode representation would be "somewhat" slower than the silicon. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
