On Thursday, 04/10/2008 at 09:47 EDT, "McKown, John" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yes, using BOCHS, which is an Intel instruction set emulator. I would
> love for them to retry that experiment on a fully powered z10, using
> optimized z10 instructions. On the old system that they used, it was
> unusably slow (think 3Mhz not 3Ghz).

No, it is not Bochs.  It is a native CMS environment to host Windows 
binaries.

But you echo my sentiment that it would great to see Bochs and the kernel 
compiled with z10 optimization and to try Windows again.

Such things are just technology demos, of course.  The devil is in the 
details, as they say, rarely having anything to do with technology! 
Politics, operating system vendor support, middleware vendor support, ...

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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