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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (884)1/15/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
'There's only two folks at IBM who know the micro-code, and they're both retired'

From C.S.Y2K thanks to Ron Kenyon, Tony Toews.

John

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ronkenyon@aol.com (RonKenyon) wrote:

>> Others are still worried. Fanfalone of the technician's union said,
>>"There's only two folks at IBM who know the micro-code, and they're both retired.
>Here's a clue ... "the micro-code". These aren't vanilla 3083's anymore, >sounds like one-off emulation of whatever one-off emulation was in the >tricked-up 360/50's, infecting those M/F's *below* the standard >machine-instruction level.
>Got specs after all these years? Or just smudges?

Gotcha. In the AS/400 and it's predecessors we never saw the
microcode. But I can see that a large client could indeed get it
customized to their requirements.

Sounds like to me they needed to eke out every possible bit of
performance out of those machines. Now, however, software is much more expensive than hardware so that decision is really biting them in the @$$ now.

Oh boy, oh boy. So not only does assembler code have to be renovated for date problems some of the code itself needs to be renovated. Oh man is the FAA in trouble.

And the US government insists that Y2K funding has to come out of
existing budgets.

Tony
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Tony Toews, Independent Computer Consultant
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