> The solution for customers with lots of small iSeries/System i
> boxes today running IBM i (formerly i5/OS formerly OS/400) is to
Good grief -- it's like going to IKEA with these folks. Name change just
Because We Can.
> put in a Power blade (JS12 or JS22). You save a lot of space and
> get to
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, David Boyes wrote:
> > ... AIX/370 was a perverse evil mutant
thing
> > from hell that didn't die a second too soon. Modern AIX (ie post-AIX
4)
> > is actually a pretty nice OS, and a lot different from AIX/370 or
AIX/RT
> > (which spawned it). ...
Rick Troth wrote:
Back to BSD ...
There have been no less than a half dozen Unix for the mainframe,
not counting the EBCDIC animals USS and OpenVM. Up to now, all
have been very AT&T-esque, so a Berzerkeley port would be refreshing.
If anyone wants to continue the discussion on a dedicated
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, David Boyes wrote:
> ... AIX/370 was a perverse evil mutant thing
> from hell that didn't die a second too soon. Modern AIX (ie post-AIX 4)
> is actually a pretty nice OS, and a lot different from AIX/370 or AIX/RT
> (which spawned it). ...
Umm...
To
>> Already virtualized on its own platform, sounds rare and kinky
>> to duplicate that on the 390.
> Not really. There are a lot of large shops that have
> significant numbers of small to medium iSeries boxen that
> they'd give their grandmother's eyeteeth to move to either
> Intel or z virtual ma
Jack Woehr wrote:
Hmm. I've been thinking of writing a blog "everything's a virtual
machine". You've
convinced me to do so!
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Everything-Is-A-Virtual-Machine.html&Itemid=29
--
Jack J. Woehr# "Self-delusion is
http://www.well.
David Boyes wrote:
to move to either Intel or Z virtual machines so that they
could completely eliminate an entire hardware platform
Ah.
Been in an machine tool factory or IKEA recently? We're actually seeing
an uptick in OpenVMS now that it runs on reasonably inexpensive Intel
hardware. It
> > If we do another native OS port, I'd be more interested in bringing
> > i5OS
> Already virtualized on its own platform, sounds rare and kinky to
> duplicate that
> on the 390.
Not really. There are a lot of large shops that have significant numbers
of small to medium iSeries boxen that they'd
> While I admit that time is a determining factor for an individual, you
> know
> how much (time) a port costs and ...
Painfully well. Especially in having to spend time with lawyers to CMA.
> The problem is that it's not the "oh it boots and gets to single user
> and...", multiuser, networking,
Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, David Boyes wrote:
Yeah, it would. I just don't think anyone's got the spare time to spend
on something that has even less commercial support than Linux and
OpenSolaris.
Lot's of consulting
hours to sell to migrate Sparc people to z aeh linux and sola
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, David Boyes wrote:
Hi,
z/OpenBSD -- wibni?
Yeah, it would. I just don't think anyone's got the spare time to spend
on something that has even less commercial support than Linux and
OpenSolaris.
While I admit that time is a determining factor for an individual
David Boyes wrote:
If we do another native OS port, I'd be more interested in bringing
i5OS
Already virtualized on its own platform, sounds rare and kinky to
duplicate that
on the 390.
AIX
Died a slow and natural death on the mainframe in the 1980's.
OpenVMS would be even more attractive fr
David Boyes wrote:
z/OpenBSD -- wibni?
Yeah, it would. I just don't think anyone's got the spare time to spend
on something that has even less commercial support than Linux and
OpenSolaris. The justification for doing both Linux and OpenSolaris had
to do with mindshare and
> z/OpenBSD -- wibni?
Yeah, it would. I just don't think anyone's got the spare time to spend
on something that has even less commercial support than Linux and
OpenSolaris. The justification for doing both Linux and OpenSolaris had
to do with mindshare and commercial access, with Li
z/OpenBSD -- wibni?
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=OpenBSD-390.html&Itemid=29
I'm bcc'ing Theo de Raadt ... he'll probably scold me, justly, for not
having ported the kernel myself
already, but really, I don't know enough to be confide
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