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  3. May 2003

Re: Linux and V5R2

At 13:01 05/05/2003, Ken Graap wrote:
I just had an interesting discussion with our IBM CE....

We were talking about V5R2 and he told me:

"Expect a 8-10% performance increase because the microcode for V5R2 was all
rewritten in Linux"

"Future OS/400 code will all be written in Linux too with a GUI over it to
make it look like OS/400"


I like Linux, but unless OS400 will be running as a guest OS under Linux (doesn't seem likely), this doesn't make much sense. You can write source under Linux. You can run compilers under Linux that might create another OS, but as for getting the spirit of Linux, somehow, into OS400, while it's still a distinct stand-alone and separate OS, I don't see how that's possible. Maybe there's better optimization in the MI compiler that runs under Linux??? That would be possible, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that Linux does anything better.


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