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
-- This is like TV. I don't like TV.- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Mar 07 2000 - 21:00:18 EST