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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry Willard) writes: > Other than having AIX in the name and being ports based on some version of > Unix, AIX/ESA and AIX/370 didn't have much in common with the AIX that runs > on System p. re: http://www.garilc.com/~lynn/2008c.html#50 Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell? http://www.garilc.com/~lynn/2008c.html#53 Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell? one of the issues about the various mainframe unix ports running under vm370 ... was that the effort to add mainframe ras & erep to unix base was significantly larger than doing the straight-forward port. running the unix port in a virtual machine ... could leave the ras and erep processing to the base virtual machine kernel. another small issue was getting field engineering sign-off on machine/hardware service unless there was adequate/approved ras and erep. had this discussion about the vast difference in mainframe ras & erep and various other systems, with other attendees at this old nasa dependable computing conference: http://www.hdcc.cs.cmu.edu/may01/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
