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From: kolding@cs.washington.edu (Eric Koldinger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: AS/400 hardware architecture wanted
Message-ID: <9996@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 89 01:49:50 GMT
References: <461@tron.UUCP> <1026@maxim.erbe.se> <5a=2028T6frT01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: kolding@june.cs.washington.edu (Eric Koldinger)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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Keywords: AS/400 hardware architecture

In article <5a=2028T6frT01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> terry@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn) writes:
>As to why they consider the architecture proprietary, who knows? They are
>consistant, however as the AS/400 is the followon/replacement for the system/38
>and system/36 which had similar restrictions on information. The rumor mill has
>it that the AS/400 and the 9370 are in fact the same processor, but who knows?

I'll blast that rumor out of the water.  About the only thing the AS/400 and
the 9370 have in common is the case that they come in.  Internally they are
completely different.  The AS/400 CPU is based on several custom TTL and CMOS
parts (varying by model).

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          ( )     "Gag Ack Barf"        Department of Computer Science
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