News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Nightmare of Getting Doom Running on a RS/6000 [video]. Parent comment

Re:The Nightmare of Getting Doom Running on a RS/6000 [video] by tannhaeuser on Thursday May 26, 2022 @03:00AM (#31515501)
i series is identical at the CMOS level to p series, and was already around 1990 when those were called OS/400 and RS/6000, resp. Dunno about System/360 times. Ofc DB/2 and RPG aren't exactly made for general-purpose computing ;) but there's something called ILE for C/C++ programming on i series (and z series) I believe.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Nightmare of Getting Doom Running on a RS/6000 [video] by lproven on Thursday May 26, 2022 @07:33AM (#31517106)
They are now, but they weren't always.

RS/6000 evolved from the RT PC, of course. Successive generations of POWER are substantially different.

AIUI OS/400 only moved to POWER in 2008: https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/ibm-i-history-and-timeline

[ Parent | on HN ]