----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:55
PM
Subject: is nmi translator off
limits?
is access to the nmi translator strictly
forbidden, any documentation?
===> future chapters in my eBook about AS/400
Machine-Level
Programming will explain the structure and format of
NMI.
am I wasting valuable web bandwidth even
asking?
===> possibly
Do 3rd party language developers have
access?
===> yes, the price they have to pay is a
reported
$1000,000.00 (USD). Don't know if this is true
though.
Are there factions in ibm in favor of opening
nmi?
Whose big idea was ile in the first place? It
seems like an added level of complexity.
A two step process to create a program instead
of one.
===> even if you are programming to the OPM using MI,
there is
a translation of the result to NMI which is then given
to
CREATE MODULE for generation of the
RISC-instructions.
Has dr. frank ever voiced an opinion on omi vs
nmi?
===> Dr. Frank has this cop-out in his book:
"In this section we explore the internals of a program
template. For our
study, we will use the OPM program template, even though the
RISC-
based systems do not support it. I've chosen the OPM for two
reasons.
First, we can illustarte some of the more interesting
concepts behind the
original design of the MI instruction set. Second, some of
the details of
the ILE program template have never been made
public"
Steve Richter
midrange.com
