The port to the new hardware replaced IMPI and the associated microcode, which required the VLIC to be rewritten to target PowerPC instead of IMPI, and for the operating system functionality previously implemented in the HLIC microcode to be re-implemented elsewhere. Early versions of OS/400 inherited the Horizontal and Vertical Microcode layers of the System/38, although they were renamed to the Horizontal Licensed Internal Code (HLIC) and Vertical Licensed Internal Code (VLIC) respectively. The port to PowerPC required a rewrite of most of the code below the TIMI. See also: IBM AS/400 § The move to PowerPC By that point, it had been renamed to the Application System/400, and the operating system had been named Operating System/400. Silverlake was available for field test in June 1988, and was officially announced in August of that year. In addition to adding support for System/36 applications, some of the user interface and ease-of-use features from the System/36 were carried over to the new operating system. The operating system for Silverlake was codenamed XPF (Extended CPF), and had originally begun as a port of CPF to the Fort Knox hardware. The project became known as Silverlake (named for Silver Lake in Rochester, Minnesota). During the Fort Knox project, a skunkworks project was started at Rochester by engineers, who succeeded in developing code which allowed System/36 applications to run on top of the System/38, and when Fort Knox was cancelled, this project evolved into an official project to replace both the System/36 and System/38 with a single new hardware and software platform. Development began in the aftermath of the failure of the Fort Knox project, which left IBM without a competitive midrange system.
OS/400 was developed alongside the AS/400 hardware platform beginning in December 1985. It inherits a number of distinctive features from the System/38 platform, including the Machine Interface, the implementation of object-based addressing on top of a single-level store, and the tight integration of a relational database into the operating system. It is an evolution of the System/38 CPF operating system, with compatibility layers for System/36 SSP and AIX applications. It was renamed to i5/OS in 2004, before being renamed a second time to IBM i in 2008.
It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as the sole operating system of the IBM AS/400 line of systems. IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. System Support Program, Control Program Facility Shares many Microkernel (SLIC) and Virtual machine (TIMI) design philosophies Minicomputer, midrange computer and enterprise server Main Menu of IBM i 7.1, shown inside a TN5250 clientĬ++, C, PL/MI, Java, Assembly language, Modula-2, PL/MP
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