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IBM System/360 and NexGen i586 were big inspirations for the design of Cosmopolitan.
by jart 6y ago
IBM System/360 and NexGen i586 were big inspirations for the design of Cosmopolitan.
- thequux 6y agoAre you familiar with IBM i (née AS/400)? There's a similar idea there, where programs are compiled to a virtual instruction set called TIMI then statically recompiled to whatever the machine's native instruction set is at the first load on a given machine. As a result, you can just drop a System/36 binary on a modern PowerPC system and not even notice that you've just crossed two changes of instruction set.