McKown, John wrote: > Hum, I guess you could run Linux for zSeries on an PSI box legally. IBM > does not have any say in that.
Well it's not clear. If I understand IBM's claims, they are asserting that PSI boxes violate certain IBM patents during the execution of certain instruction sequences (and they list a few almost as examples, suggesting that there are many more). Such a box running Linux would presumably violate at least some of the same patents. > What would be interesting would be if a > PSI box could also implement the old pre-XA architecture, thus allowing > use of the public domain OSes from IBM (MVT, MVS 3.8j, OS/VS1, and the > original VM/370). > > Of course, I don't know why anybody would want to do that. For fun! But there are already emulators that can do that, so why would anyone want to spend semi-serious bucks on a hobby box? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
