Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond

John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> schrieb:

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 07:47:49 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
<tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> schrieb:

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If they took it to its logical conclusion, and packaged zArchitecture
chips without the ability to run current IBM operating systems in the
same way as POWER chips, I might actually be interested.

>

Would you like to buy one, then?  That would be a large investment
of money and space in your home...  but then again, an 18-year old
once bought a z890, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk

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Well, when I said "packaged... in the same way as POWER chips", I
meant that they would make systems with fewer CPUs than a mainframe
which were in the category of ordinary desktop computers if they were
to do that... which, of course, they won't.

You can buy POWER9 machines from RaptorCS.  The command prompt
does not look different from AMD64, but of course the coolness
factor is much higher.  (Also the noise level, if you do not order
with soundproofing...)

But maybe you can also run a 360/30 on an FPGA board, somebody
has apparently implemented it in VHDL from the logic diagrams:
https://github.com/ibm2030/IBM2030