Re: PC connection via twinax ?

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO, anytime you bypass the multiple layer approach of isolation
between application, OS, services and hardware you create a threat to
system integrity.

This is what makes the system rock solid.  Look at the delays in the PC
world that have been created by the move from 32 to 64 bit.  Big Blue
made the change at the hardware level and we, the software community,
had to do nothing.

Magic.

You want to do bare metal programming, you're on your own.  Just like
the PC world.  And don't even try to tell me that Wintel has been
totally open with their technical specifications.  You can get to it. 
Don't expect it to be spoon fed to you.


> From: srichter <srichter@mail.autocoder.com>
> > If a 3rd party dev wanted to enable your interactive pgm to write direct to
> a twinax terminal, bypassing a dspf and cfint:  is the twinax interface
> documented to enable this?
> >
> > Admittedly this is a bit far out there in "why would you want to do that"
> territory, but a valid response is: what is gained by ibm in not releasing
> what I have described.  It is not a threat to system integrity.
>