Re: TIMI

At 03:53 PM 1/13/98 -0500, David Prowak wrote:
>During a Lunch & Learn earlier today, there was mention of the
>TIMI (Technology Independent Machine Interface).
>What is this?
>What is it used for?

Dave,

I just ran across this term in some sales literature. It seems to be referring 
to the MI, which is an intermediate layer of virtual operations (low level 
APIs) that map logical instructions to the underlying hardware. Conceptually, 
it's similar to java bytecodes. My understanding is that the program template 
represents the MI. Each MI instruction represents one or more actual processor 
instructions. In order to move to a new hardware instruction set, no HLL 
program changes are required as long as the MI continues to provide identical 
services.

Pete



Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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