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Beyond the compiler: Making IBM i run modified native code

15 points by dnet ago | 2 comments

qubex [-]

I love reading about work fellow OS/400-and-successors-thereof do with the exotic architecture that lives in the background and basically nobody understands or even knows exists.

pjmlp |root |parent [-]

Yeah, the surviving mainframes and micros from IBM and Unisys have lots of cool stuff.

You get some of their ideas into more mainstream platforms like Android, or Windows subsystems, however it is only half way there, versus what those micros and mainframes have available.