Re: AS/400 History

["Joe Frank" <jfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Carr wrote:

> 
> Trivia question:   Why was the Sys/32 architecture so
> important/instrumental to running the Sys/36 code on the AS/400 ???
> 
> John Carr
> EdgeTech
> 

If you're referring to the emulation of one computer by another,
I don't believe the System/32 exerted any influence.

The System/32 incorporated a microprocessor (16-bit) that 
emulated the System/3 instruction set.  The concept was not, 
howver, groundbreaking -- The System 360 of the early 60's 
was the first (commercially available) computer to use this 
technique to achieve scalability.  

Joe Frank
Synapse Communications, Inc.
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