Retranslation Could Boost Performance
May 13, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan
There are so many kinds of genius embedded into the IBM midrange line that it is hard to know where to begin when discussing all of these interconnected ideas and layers. But perhaps the simplest way to encapsulate them all is that the System/38 and AS/400 minicomputers and their follow-ons sought to abstract away and mask some of the more complex aspects of a modern system so that programmers could focus on business logic and system administrators could focus at a much higher level, too.
One of the key differentiators of these IBM midrange platforms, and one of the hallmarks …
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