On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 05:55:57 -0600, Shane Ginnane wrote:
>
>I sometimes wonder when was the last time anyone installed to a "real" piece
>of hardware - no {pico,micro,macro)-code.
>Slushware is ubiquitous.
>
>The corollary of course is how do vendors like vmware and IBM convince
>customers for continue to pay for hipervisors ?.
>z/OS is not the only golden goose apparently.
>
It began nearly a half century ago with microcode implementation of S360
models, and only slightly later, W. M. Waite's Mobile Programming System.
Nowadays:
microcode->millicode->PR/SM->VM->JVM->byte code
How many layers have I neglected? Hercules is a confluent branch.
-- gil
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