It was much later than XA, I think they probably couldn't get the license for the 64 bit implementation. We installed a Hitachi Pilot CPU in 1999, and after that they came out with the Skyline series of machines.
Dana On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 07:27:15 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > >Good question. I was told that the 3rd party CPU hardware parties quit when >XA came out do to some change. But I don't know if it was licensing, or >maybe some patent, or just too expensive in the R&D area. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
