360/44, 360/75, 360/95 and 360/195 were the only shipped S/360 models to be 
hard wired. The 360/44 wasn't a full S/360 but there was a feature for 
simulating the missing instructions in bump storage.


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Mike Schwab [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 8:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: LzLabs

Yep.  They drop the interrupt handling in zIIPs and zAAPs to get full
speed processing.

Could have checked the chips on the boards.  Most S/360 models had
some microcode, only the highest model had all instructions in
hardware.

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 4:58 AM Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It's interesting that a zIIP can be described as a "speciality" engine yet
> the workload they run also run on a CP engine.
>
> I thought that they are the same basically and it's just another way to
> sell a piece of kit and play bait and switch on pricing.
>
> Years ago we had a 9370 and a company in Melbourne we had some support from
> ran an AS400. Their chief was convinced that the only difference was
> microcode (and price!).
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:28 PM Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1rR_dVgql8YSALoeyuf7ezcu9s1nlFAZyNS1Tk40yYGsfNW_QHjlyFLUEXqPwd5xpgWkK9dALsHZZpeAD-83O92yCnID8zfocAxbICK4xv6kbhJp4OQRdCUCqH4raKSeyat1qSfuGHXoyYJDbV0fbbu5gvmXL67i7fEnidt_j8jWVrk-sBYOOw2CICfxSCyG8DN_yA8VKlKjkPAYcUZB8_13txRX6E3xnEBmZiDZqrhUlJTI6g0PV1AgvOybajYj7Y8XjHxpCbQg1PnPXIvllEXLuhuT6Zjb8i_6IKNCe72XHYE_R9DdxefR6Zv_D_To-m7IFswfcvffjs7sd2LfUvn9faT21Fv0bHK0MMGGUcuXCZicKkim5E6kvCQpVEfitbAwK-XT8jEq-Q1G83znmWYP5d0gw2MCbxQeoNir3YNIn6NLQ13jN7GSdz8wsdU8v/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eweek.com%2Fnetworking%2Fneon-settles-mainframe-software-lawsuit-with-ibm
> >
> > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 3:18 AM Steve Beaver <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually they Did in Europe. European courts sided with Neon
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > > On May 1, 2020, at 22:07, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > No.  Neon was a software company.  They sold a product called zPrime
> > that
> > > > allowed unauthorized usage of zIIP and zAAP for almost any kind of
> > > > workload.  IBM already runs much of DB2 on zIIP.
> > > >
> > > > IBM only allows code to run on zIIP when you have specific contracts
> > that
> > > > allow you to for specific things.  Neon either violated those, or more
> > > > likely reverse-engineered it, which is almost certainly a violation of
> > some
> > > > other contract they were bound to.
> > > >
> > > > I don't know any details, but it's hard for me to see how that Neon
> > thought
> > > > they were going to get away with it.
> > > >
> > > > sas
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:42 PM Mike Schwab <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Neon was a product to run some DB2 on zAAPs or zIIPs.  Only the
> > > >> workload specified by IBM could run on those processors.
> > > >>
> > > >>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 5:45 PM Peter Baumann <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> In a lawsuit against Neon Enterprise (John Moores) the court ruled in
> > > >> favor of IBM. They had to take zPrime out of the market.  There was
> > also a
> > > >> permanent injunction issued against Neon.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
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