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Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming



On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 23:54, Steve Richter wrote:
> Well I won an auction on ebay for a G3 iMac.  Its blueberry colored!
> $120 + $40 shipping. Not bad.
> 
> I am looking forward to seeing how far I can go with this.  I have an
> IBM as400 which is powered by a 64 bit PPC with some special
> instructions only used on that system. The as400 uses 16 byte pointers
> and an architecture that is called "single level store" that is
> different than what you see in Linux and Windows.

That's the virtual machine. Linux on as400 has 64-bit pointers.
The virtual machine is used by os400.




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