The MI is an object oriented language at a high level than Pascal P-code. I don't know how it compares to JVM byte code. The key feature is that you can only call a program object and that the objects are black box.
You might want to read up on capability based machines and browse the manuals at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/system38/ and http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/as400/. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gorlinsky [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 25, 2022 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Storage protection keys Would you consider that the applications were more like P-Code ( pseudo-code ) ... not that much different in principle to JAVA today ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
