I think that idea was part of the System/38, several years before the AS/400, with its horizontal and vertical microcode!

--Paul E Musselman

At 7:51 PM +0000 11/25/17, Jonathan Wilson wrote (in part):

I remember when one of the overriding ideas behind the "400" was the
idea that new storage ideas would be transparent to the
user/programmer... the thinking was for when static/persistent memory
became available nothing would need to be done because that would be all
handled transparently by the slic...

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