Re: AS/400 strong points

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FROM:      RLZ      LNDRY400  Zimmerman, Ron at LNDRY400

DATE:      MAYÿ22,ÿ1997
SUBJECT:   Re: AS/400 strong points


>I would not venture to include "w/o recompiling" in that last
>statement!
>
>
>Danny Mc?

I just finished tthe conversion from CISC to RISC last month and I
didn't recompile any programs.  NONE!! ZIP!! ZERO!! NADA!!

That was from a 9406-B35 running V3R1 to a 9402-40S running V3R7.

Thank You,
Ron Zimmerman         Internet Address: ron-zimmerman@uiowa.edu (work)
Systems Programmer I                    zimm@muscanet.com       (home)
University of Iowa
Laundry Service
Iowa City, IA 52242-1000

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Jeffrey M. Carey wrote:
> Technology Independent Machine Interface - this makes the AS/400 very
> scalable - when you upgrade to RISC, for example, all your apps are
> immediately running at 64 bit.  In UNIX, the OS and the apps must be

> re-engineered to take full advantage of the new hardware.  Also, because
> of this you CAN migrate from CISC to RISC without any programming or
> recompiling.

        I would not venture to include "w/o recompiling" in that last
statement!


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