Re: Linux and V5R2

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:01 05/05/2003, Ken Graap wrote:
> 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"


I like Linux, but unless OS400 will be running as a guest OS under Linux 
(doesn't seem likely), this doesn't make much sense. You can write source 
under Linux. You can run compilers under Linux that might create another 
OS, but as for getting the spirit of Linux, somehow, into OS400, while it's 
still a distinct stand-alone and separate OS, I don't see how that's 
possible. Maybe there's better optimization in the MI compiler that runs 
under Linux??? That would be possible, but it wouldn't necessarily mean 
that Linux does anything better.


Pete Hall
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