Andrew Wiley wrote:
I'm trying to research the usefulness of an older IBM mainframe in a computer science class. The mainframe in question is an IBM 9672 RB6, which, as I understand it, was first sold in 1998. So it's reasonably old. Would this machine be able to run a few VM's of linux, or is it too old, or would it depend on the specs? I haven't been able to find much information, although I've been googling it for a few days. Sorry if this is a broad question; any help you can offer me would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew, Unless you already have a release of VM on this hardware, you can't get a VM that will run on this hardware anymore. So you are pretty much out of luck. IBM does have an academic initiative which provides incentives for higher education on System z: http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01005c/university/scholars/academicinitiative/ -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2009 - Orlando, FL - May 15-19, 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
