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> When there was an architecture change for the PowerPC, many installations only required a regeneration of the installed software. Unfortunately it wasn't qui
by dingaling 13y ago
> When there was an architecture change for the PowerPC, many installations only required a regeneration of the installed software.
Unfortunately it wasn't quite that clean in practice. Regen required TIMI to have access to the compilation templates for each program. These were intermediate compilation stages ( bytecode, I suppose ) that it could then translate to the new machine architecture.
However, these templates were often missing, deleted or out-of-sync. So we did an awful lot of recompiling from source, when we could find it...
- pjmlp 13y agoThanks for the input. I only did a bit of AS/400 administration back in 1994's Summer, just logged into the system and started the backup procedure. I was actually doing Clipper development and the company where I had a Summer job used AS/400 systems for accounting. Most of I know about OS/400 bytecode system was found looking for compiler technologies a couple of years later.