Re: Node.JS Was: New lower cost IBM i announced

Yes I would distinguish between them, but you didn't do that (or at least
not until afterwards when you starting adding caveats and footnotes) you
just made the the statement "doesn't run on IBM i".

I happen to have the "Fortress Rochester" book (though I have not looked at
it in years), but I would consider it somewhat dated now. The Amazon
description mentions Power 4, Operating System Version 5 and has a
publication date of 2001. I am pretty certain things have changed more than
a bit since then.

Processor cycles are so cheap these days that the additional overhead is
less important that the fact that you don't have to go out to the network
and/or another machine to access these services because they run on the
same server.

The fact that developers don't have to re-invent the wheel or go off
platform to get access to Open Source technology is more worthy of notice
than a distinction of where something runs in the program stack.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I fully understand the distinction Nathan is drawing; I just happen to
think the statement "doesn't run on IBM i" is absurd.

PASE is a subset of AIX. You don't distinguish between AIX and IBM i?

My view was influenced by a diagram in Frank Soltis' book, Fortress
Rochester, which depicts PASE and the native virtual machine environments
running side-by-side rather than one on top of (or inside) the other.

Frank Soltis defines IBM i as:

A virtual machine environment utilizing a technology independent machine
interface, a single-level store, and object-based machine interfaces. None
of those apply to PASE - at least not in the context that Frank Soltis
defines them.
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