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Re: compilers and architecture, Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432?

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Subject Re: compilers and architecture, Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432?
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... trivia: after FS implodes, head of POK was convincing corporate to
kill the VM370 product, shutdown the development group and transfer all
the people to POK for (370/XA) MVS/XA ... possibly because of how bad it
made POK's favorite son operation system, MVS, look; ... which 16-CPU
SMP would have just made MVS look worse.

Endicott (370 mid-range) eventually manages to acquire the VM370 product
mission ... but has to recreate a development group from scratch.

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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Re: Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432? thresh3@fastmail.com (Lev) - 2026-05-30 07:13 +0000
  Re: Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432? Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-05-30 08:07 -0700
    Re: compilers and architecture, Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-05-30 19:24 +0000
      Re: compilers and architecture, Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432? Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-05-31 13:52 -1000
        Re: compilers and architecture, Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432? Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-05-31 14:41 -1000
        Re: compilers and architecture, Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432? Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-06-01 05:08 -1000

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