AS/400?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Aug 9 21:21:11 2000

Allison wrote:
> I though the AS400 is CISC to the max and the RISC solutions were
> called RS6000.

Nope. All current AS/400 systems use RISC processors.

The "MI" layer, which is the lowest supported "machine code" level of
the AS/400 (sort of like P-code or Java bytecodes) is very CISCy, but
that's implemented in software on both CISC and RISC AS/400s.

It's reported that IBM will be calling future machines "I/500",
and they will be capable of running OS/400, AIX, or Linux.
Received on Wed Aug 09 2000 - 21:21:11 BST