Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread Tony Harminc
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 08:27, John McKown wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 7:18 AM Raphael Jacquot wrote: > > did the competition (amdahl & others) had a "license" to produce mainframes > > ? > > Good question. I was told that the 3rd party CPU hardware parties quit when > XA came out do to

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John McKown Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 8:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA https://secu

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread Allan Staller
r analyses I have seen where the raised floor, power, AC,... were all allocated to the MF. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM "opens" OpenPo

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:26 AM Gary Gregory < gary.greg...@dino-software.com> wrote: > I thought the 3rd parties dropped out when the z/Architecture 64-bit was > announced. > > I read somewhere, years ago, it was going to a $1B investment for the PCM > manufactures to develop and offer a 64-bit

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread Gary Gregory
kef> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Dana Mitchell Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 7:45:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA It was much later than XA, I think they probably couldn't get the license for the 64 bit implementatio

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread Dana Mitchell
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 wrote: > >Good

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread Tony Thigpen
Yes, is the very short answer. Tony Thigpen Raphael Jacquot wrote on 8/22/19 8:18 AM: 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

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 7:18 AM Raphael Jacquot wrote: > 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,

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread Raphael Jacquot
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

IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread John McKown
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