Talk:4690 Operating System

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Unpublished Sources bullet point

This sentence and the associated bullet point read like an individual touting for business. I suggest that both lines are deleted. StuartHighley (talk) 09:54, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 11:56, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Out-of-date

V6R4 is out now — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.47.18.127 (talk) 22:34, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

V6R5 is out now, and I think the tgcs.com site is better than the ibm.com site for the "Official Website", but I may be biased. Da Twink Daddy (talk) 20:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Curses-based text interface"

Could we have some clarification on this innovative feature (of ANY IBM software product, as far as I am concerned ;-)

For instance, is it available in multiple languages - and what about dialects? (The Bavarian dialect, allegedly of the German language, is supposed to be especially rich in swearwords.

gerdd@mweb.co.za

197.87.150.201 (talk) 11:43, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ha. But… Curses_(programming_library) Bonusballs (talk) 15:13, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Links to 4690 OS Publications

Just a heads up, but the 4690 OS Publications are going to be deleted from the web, so all those links will break in the near future.

129.42.208.183 (talk) 16:28, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

More than Java 2

Enhanced mode terminals and controllers (available since V5R2 [or earlier?]), provide more modern JVMs, with TDK 8 (based on OpenJDK 8) being the latest available in V6R5. Also, V6R5 ships with a Python 2.x, which I personally consider an decent improvement over FlexOS batch files for scripting. Da Twink Daddy (talk) 20:49, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you only need to use the Metaware compiler for 16-bit C applications. 32-bit C uses the IBM VisualAge compiler ("optlink" calling convention is required). V7 might also provide other options for 32-bit compilation. Da Twink Daddy (talk) 21:31, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Some slight confusion in the article.

"In 2018, a Linux-based successor of 4690 OS, named TCx Sky and codeveloped with Wind River Systems, was launched."

This isn't completely correct. As of 4690V5, Linux was already being used as part of enhanced mode. TCxSky is a branding change more than anything, as 4690 is an IBM branding, while TCxSky is a Toshiba branding. WindRiver replaced the Linux operating system that was already in 4690, as that version was IBM proprietary and hadn't been updated in quite some time (kernel version was on 2.6.32). It was also 32-bit Linux, while WindRiver is 64-bit Linux (the 4690 subsystem is still 32-bits.) Tkirton (talk) 08:46, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]