On 1/21/09 1:58 PM, "O'Brien, Dennis L" <Dennis.L.O'br...@bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you can use the z/VM Evaluation Edition code to evaluate > Hercules' implementation of z/Architecture. If z/VM works correctly, > then Hercules has implemented the architecture correctly. Chickens or > eggs, anyone? Not really, because z/VM doesn't emulate everything. Some things get passed through to the hardware without comment. >From a conversation with the Flex-ES developers a while back, there seems actually a formal test process that POK uses to bless an implementation. The Flex guys paid a lot of money and a lot of lawyers to go through it and license all the necessary patents properly. There's a nice article in zJournal this month by Phil Smith that discusses the emulation scene in a lot of detail. It'd sure be nice if IBM decided play nice now that the PSI threat no longer exists. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
