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  • Subject: Re: AS/4OO vs S/390 Linux port
  • From: "Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Aug 00 18:35:30 +1000

M
Hello Dave,

You wrote:
>I understand that the S/390 uses only a 31bit CPU.

AFAIK, 32-bit but they need one bit to determine whether they are in 16-bit 
mode or XA 
mode.

>Does that mean in effect that the AS/4OO architecture is more advanced
>having a 64bit CPU 

Yes!  But not only the larger data width.  Almost everything on the AS/400 is 
better 
than 390 except sheer through-put and clustering (and we are knocking on those 
doors 
already).  390 is a 40 year old architecture -- we're only 20 something.  
Mostly it is a 
case of artificial constraints imposed on the AS/400.

>& when the AS/400 Linux port is
>ready it will be better?

Hardly, Linux is Linux is Linux ..... same-old same-old ....

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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