On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:43:38 -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> wrote:
>-- >40+yrs virtualization exerience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (Or something like that.) Thank you for sharing - once again I learned something(s) new. I never knew what HONE stood for, nor it's original purpose. In the services arena, we attempted to keep this self-training exercise going, but IBM had such a hard time deciding what to do about "small mainframes" and their customers, that our regional P/390 died a slow and painful death (though it did serve a useful purpose for a couple of years). Since we could not fund a Multiprise to replace it (which had a short shelf life itself), we began investigating VM accounts in Pok or Kingston as a way to keep it going ("son of HONE"?), but before that could gain traction, I was let go, and shortly thereafter, what was left of my team was disbanded and scattered to the four winds. We are fortunate here to be large enough to have dedicated LPARs for a sandbox / training environment, but we are using VM guests for another major project. Works quite well, including full-blown parallel sysplex. That was one of the shortcomings of our P/390 sandbox - the CF guest support wasn't yet available to us. Regards, Art Gutowski Ford Motor Company ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html