On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 01:43 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, zMan wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > AT:
> > > http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/07/22/242070/mainframes-still-not-dead-says-ibm.htm
> > > There is a sentence which (I believe) is stand alone and to me it is
> > > curiously worded:
> > > "We can run Windows on zEnterprise, but we have not decided whether we can
> > > justify this financially."
> > > I think this says what I have been saying for a long time IBM has gotten
> > > Windows to work on the mainframe.
> > >
> > 
> > No, I think it means that they can run it on zBX but aren't sure they want
> > the support load and/or to have to support it through the HMC interface. But
> > I don't know, that's just my interpretation!
> 
> Actually, I think if one could run bochs or qemu on mainframe, then one 
> could also run Windows on top of this. I am not sure about performance.
> 
> Regards,
> Tomasz Rola

And Mantissa is still taking, a bit, about z/VOS which run Windows under
z/VM. I think it is an emulator / JIT type process.

-- 
John McKown
Maranatha! <><

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