Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:31:30 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson <noslenj@swbell.net> To: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: funny repair remark Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001212220150.1520-100000@acp.swbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200001220314.TAA03896@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote: >> > >The AS/400 is unsuited to running C. It uses a 64 bit pointer, >> > >8 bits of which are a check-value. This means that running C >> > >code that does pointer arithmatic or array indexing would be >> > >nearly impossible with a free compiler. > >Well, sorta :-) > >The machine that uses those pointers is a virtual machine, down deep >under the covers you'll find that the processors are now POWER >architecture, although I don't think the first AS400s were. That's true about the virtual machine. I also remember that you could mix Pascal, C, RPG, PL/1, et.al., without worrying about callling order or much of anything else -- so IBM said. Most IBM shops stayed away from it in droves, so I never saw how it worked. Nearly all of the 400's, now, have migrated to the power pc chip instead of the older Power risc architecture. Several companies around here made a good living for a couple of years migrating customers. And RPG, believe it or not, is _still_ a religion unapproachable except by the blessed;) -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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