Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 64 bit - Trillium | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 05 Mar 2000 19:22:03 +0100 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > > The AS/400 is more like a toaster than a computer. They take an interesting > approach of implementing a protected machine via software 'trust'. The > compiler generates apps that are written in an interpreted layer and have > been validated to some extent. The code is then executed JIT style with > trust checks in the code. The real hardware is much akin to an MMUless 386.
AFAIK newer AS/400 run an extended PPC/Power CPU with some extensions (hardware multi threading, some kind of hardware type checking etc.)
-Andi
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