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From: joel@cfctech.UUCP (Joel Lessenberry)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
Message-ID: <17045@cfctech.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 16:06:18 GMT
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In article <1633@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.UUCP (John Hascall) writes:
>...
>}We already need pointers larger than 32 bits.  IBM's AS400 has a virtual
>}address space greater than 32 bits, too.
>
>   I don't know about CDC, but the AS/400 uses what is called Single Level
>   Storage, that is, all memory and disk are in one humongous address space.
>   John Hascall
>

	is anyone else out their interested in starting an AS/400 thread?

	It is IBM's most advanced system..

		Single level storage
		Object Oriented Arch
		Context addressing
		Hi level machine Instruction set
		64 bit logical addressing
		True complete I/D split, no chance for self modifying
			code
	
				joel


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