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Convergence Section, previous name Consolidation
[edit]Consider my edit: Convergence title makes more sense than Consolidation, evidenced by words in this section, somewhat modeled on article Technological convergence. EWLwiki (talk) 22:38, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
Consider the way Linux articles are written
[edit]I am impressed with the style shown in articles Linux kernel,History of Linux and Linux kernel version history I think the articles on IBM AS/400 and IBM i and IBM Power Systems could benefit by incorporating some of the style shown in the Linux articles. What say you? EWLwiki — Preceding undated comment added 22:26, 19 March 2022 (UTC) EWLwiki (talk) 22:39, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
CREATE PROGRAM instruction
[edit]There should be a discussion of the role of the CREATE PROGRAM instruction, which compiles a TIMI template into a program object. I don't know about AS/400, but on S/38 that was the only way to create execurable code. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:51, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
"Architectural shift developed wholly internally"
[edit]A citation was requested for "Although announced in 1988, the AS/400 remains IBM's most recent major architectural shift that was developed wholly internally." with the comment "...while POWER 7, 8, 9 and 10 were still developed in-house".
New Power processors aren't architectural shifts - they run newer versions of the Power ISA, but they don't support a completely new ISA.
But I'm not sure what the AS/400 is a shift from. Much of it is the same system architecture as System/38. The instruction set shift did switch from the developed-wholly-internally IMPI to the developed-internally (if you don't count Motorola and Apple's contributions to PowerPC) PowerAS (or whatever term refers to the AS/400-only extensions to PowerPC/Power ISA), but that wasn't part of the switch from System/38 to AS/400, that happened later in AS/400 history.
So the question remains - what does "architectural shift" mean here?
And, in any case, a citation is called for. Guy Harris (talk) 19:19, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Frequency for IMPI
[edit]Hello,
I have seen the frequency for IMPI being stated as higher than 22MHz. However, My C10 is clocked at 5.43MHz. Maybe the clock frequency is multiplied internally?