IBM docs.

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Sat Feb 21 20:51:21 1998

> At the risk of reviving at least two discussions better left dead, I
> have dug out some more IBM documents.

Take the risk! Some of us like the big iron!
 
> The instruction set of the System/34 looks CISC and 8-bit-ish, although
> it handled 16 bit and (I think) 32 bit data. Typical speed seems to
> have been 0.1 to 0.3 MIPS. Someone on this list some months ago
> described it as "a room-sized 8088" which is probably about right,
> performance-wise...

I think all of the S/3x family is CISC, often to the extreme with the
S/38. Even IBMs RISC machines, the POWER and POWER2 RS/6000s, were pretty
much CISC.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Sat Feb 21 1998 - 20:51:21 GMT