On 8/22/19 2:07 PM, John McKown wrote: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/20/ibm_openpower_isa/ > > Basically, from what I read, this means that other companies can produce > competing chips which implement the Power ISA, without requiring a license. > It is more likely that the Sun will become a supernova than IBM would > "open" the IBM z ISA. >
did the competition (amdahl & others) had a "license" to produce mainframes ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
