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- From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
- Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.231505.17734@netcom.com>
- Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
- References: <1992Dec22.092355.29859@adobe.com> <1992Dec22.204313.29024@rchland.ibm.com> <Bzs3zn.43H.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Dec24.203452.22045@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 23:15:05 GMT
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- kolding@cs.washington.edu (Eric Koldinger) writes:
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- >In article <Bzs3zn.43H.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
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- >The AS/400 uses a tagged memory-system and tagged registers to protect
- >capabilities (or pointers, as they call them). There are also a number of
- >operations that only take place on capabilities. This makes it rather unlikely
- >that they'd use a stock micro-processor from the workstation group. You could,
- Is there an description of the AS/400 hardware architecture available?
- Thanks.
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- Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
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