Re: Kernel port to AS/400???

Michael Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:17:09 -0400

| > Has a port to the IBM AS/400 ever been comtemplated?
|
| Since the older AS/400 as RS6000 based but the nwer ones are PPC
| based, I guess in theory it would be possible, assuming IBM weren't
| to anal about releasing hardware docs for it.

Nope, older AS/400's were custom silicon (AS/400's are an extension of the
System/38's, which in turn was an extension of System/36, which came from
System/3 if memory serves). As I recall, the pre-ppc machines were really C
hostile (even more C hostile than the Data General MV/Eclipse I did a C
compiler for :-)

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