Re: AS/4OO vs S/390 Linux port

Thanks Simon,
Nice answers.

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Coulter <shc@flybynight.com.au>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, 18 August 2000 07:01
Subject: Re: AS/4OO vs S/390 Linux port


>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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