RE: Linux and V5R2

["Fritz Hayes" <fhayes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Linux kernel (remember, this is an Operating System!) is written in C.
So let's hum a little tune to the Beetles "Let It Be":

Written in C
Written in C
Written in C


Fritz Hayes 

> 
> I suspect that if the microcode was all rewritten in Linux, we would have
> heard about this before now.
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> Honest!!! I'm not making this up. this is really what he said!
> 
> Kenneth
> 
> 
> I think he had too many martini's for lunch..... :(  I could possible
> accept
> "microcode was optimized to support linux" but even that is a bit of a
> stretch.
> 
> Eric DeLong
> 
> 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"
> 
> Hmmmmmmmm ...  Has anyone else heard this?
> 
> Kenneth
>