Re: SCO versus IBM, Round Three

2003-04-04 Thread Wesley Parish
That would be the appropriate response - then IBM could release the original Un*x source code under the BSD or LGPL license to make sure that this sort of silliness gets cut off at the source (pun intended ;^) Wesley Parish On Friday 04 April 2003 08:48 am, you wrote: > James Melin wrote: > > I

Re: Anybody (maybe Alan) can explain? OCO qeth module for "May 20 02 stream" does not resolve some symbol

2003-04-04 Thread Lucas Brasilino
Hi Leland: Adding the following near the top of /usr/src/linux/net/ipv6/addrconf.c will probably take care of your problem. EXPORT_SYMBOL(addrconf_lock); EXPORT_SYMBOL(in6_dev_finish_destroy); I got bored so I thought I'd test it out. The solution was right, but the file was wrong. Add the above

Re: DASD technology for VM and Linux

2003-04-04 Thread Ward, Garry
Ok; this is the 2nd place I've see a reference to a 3390 mod 27. Would someone point me down a short path to the details on this beast? TIA Garry E. Ward Senior Software Specialist Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group 419-725-4123 -Original Message- From: Marcy Cortes [mailto:[EM

Re: Linux and Viruses

2003-04-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2003-04-04 at 02:17, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > And besides: a virus scanner is a lousy solution to the problem. Have > you noticed that you have to keep it up-to-date to make it efficient? > Why not keep your system patched instead? (this can be automated just as > well. Easily). There is a m

Re: DASD technology for VM and Linux

2003-04-04 Thread Jim Elliott
> Ok; this is the 2nd place I've see a reference to a 3390 mod 27. > Would someone point me down a short path to the details on this beast? Garry: The IBM Enterprise Storage Server (aka Shark) has the ability to create 3390 format volumes of up to 32,760 cylinders. This is three times the capaci

Re: IBM Moves Linux Mainframes to the Center of the Grid

2003-04-04 Thread David Boyes
Funny -- globus has been available on Linux/390 for months, as has the GT3 and OGSA toolkit. I seem to remember completing this port more than a few months ago and demoing it at Marist's Data Center of the Future conference September 19th of last year. We've been building these things for at leas

Re: DASD technology for VM and Linux

2003-04-04 Thread Ward, Garry
Thanks; missed that one. Garry E. Ward Senior Software Specialist Maritz Research, Automotive Research Group 419-725-4123 -Original Message- From: Jim Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DASD technology for VM and Li

Re: DASD technology for VM and Linux

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Raulerson
We are looking along those lines right now as well. Would anyone posting private e-mails on this please include me too? :) Thanks -Paul - Original Message - From: "Ward, Garry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:09 AM Subject: Re: DASD technology

Re: DASD technology for VM and Linux

2003-04-04 Thread Richards.Bob
In z/VM 4.3 announcement: * Support for up to 32,760-cylinder Enterprise Storage Server(tm) (ESS) 3390 volumes. The 32,760-cylinder 3390 volume helps relieve device address constraints and improves disk resource utilization. Storage administrator productivity may be improved by providing the abilit

Re: Linux and Viruses

2003-04-04 Thread Ryan Ware
A lot of companies, mine included strip attachments at the mail gateway, that way new viruses will not get through, assuming you've blocked that type off attachment. This helps prevent the -our vendor doesn't have definitions for that yet or their ftp server is unreachable. > -Original Messag

Oh,, look who's popped out of the woodwork

2003-04-04 Thread Phil Payne
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8734 Baron Gunther Freiherr von Gravenreuth - better known as Herr G|nther von Gravenreuth - those little dots are important. Anyone who can be bothered should go to http://www.google.de and search on the correct spelling, asking for pages from Germany. They'

Re: Linux/390 Assembler Guru's...

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Raulerson
Thanks John- I'll post this reply to both groups as a polite way of doing so then. :) Most of our (my!) problems are with the different Linkage conventions under Linux of course. It uses a simple register based method to pass arguments to SVCs and C-Libraries functions, and yet it still uses a s

Re: Thoughts on DB2...

2003-04-04 Thread David Boyes
I'm just finishing up a cost case for a similar environment, and the numbers look very good if you can live with some of the technical restrictions. As others have said, there are limits on the size of the databases supported by UDB, however with the ability to run multiple copies of UDB in the VM

Re: Linux and Viruses

2003-04-04 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Ryan Ware wrote: > A lot of companies, mine included strip attachments at the mail gateway, > that way new viruses will not get through, assuming you've blocked that type That's a bit excessive. Using attachments is perfectly legitimate, and with procedures like that how can s

Re: Linux and Viruses

2003-04-04 Thread Ryan Ware
We don't block all attachments, only those that are viruses 99% of the time, .vbs .js .exe .pif .scr, etc. As far as word, it is a necessary evil in the corporate world. The gateway gets the bulk of all the nasties, the mail then goes to the virus scanner before ending up in anyones mail box. The

Re: Oh,, look who's popped out of the woodwork

2003-04-04 Thread Jim Elliott
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8734 > Baron Gunther Freiherr von Gravenreuth - better known as Herr G|nther > von Gravenreuth - those little dots are important. I am not an IP lawyer, but... Linus is the registered owner of the trademark Linux in the US (see the link below). http://tess2.

Re: Linux/390 Assembler Guru's...

2003-04-04 Thread Lucius, Leland
Hi Paul, I did something similar. Except I took C source, compiled it under Linux, used TAS to assemble it, and linked it up on OS/390 to produce non-LE based zlib and bzip2 libraries. You can find the libraries in the assembler section over at http://www.homerow.net, but here's a snippet from t

Re: IBM Moves Linux Mainframes to the Center of the Grid

2003-04-04 Thread David Boyes
> I've recently had a number of IBM web pages pointed out to me > that talk > about zSeries boxes being useful in grid computing. 390's are useful in grids, but primarily as storage management nodes and as control nodes. As Mark points out, 390s don't produce enough raw cycles to be very interesti

Re: Oh,, look who's popped out of the woodwork

2003-04-04 Thread Phil Payne
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8734 > > > Baron Gunther Freiherr von Gravenreuth - better known as Herr G|nther > > von Gravenreuth - those little dots are important. > > I am not an IP lawyer, but... Linus is the registered owner of the > trademark Linux in the US (see the link below). >

Re: whatever happened to the Linux SNA project? Web page is unrea chable.

2003-04-04 Thread David Boyes
> I got curious and went googling. I turned up this snippet at > http://ftp.nl.linux.org/linux/bk2patch/linux-2.4/SCCS/s.MAINTAINERS: > SNA NETWORK LAYER > P: Jay Schulist > M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > W: http://www.linux-sna.org > S: Supported > > Possibl

Re: Oh,, look who's popped out of the woodwork

2003-04-04 Thread Conway, Steven
And I thought we (the U.S.) had the monopoly on "stupid lawyer tricks". :-( -Original Message- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oh,, look who's popped out of the woodwork > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?ar

A couple more VERY minor kernel patches

2003-04-04 Thread Lucius, Leland
I've posted a couple more patches to the kernel source over at: http://www.homerow.net/projects/zlinux/kernelfixes.htm Just 3 for now. The small VMPOFF and VMHALT patch I posted to the list a while back, one that allows SLES8 users to use DEVFS, and one that allows you to compile IPV6 into the k

Linux in Munich

2003-04-04 Thread Phil Payne
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/getArticleSZ.php?artikel=artikel104.php I apologize for yet another German link, but I've just not seen this story anywhere in English. Basically Steve Ballmer was on a skiing holiday in Switzerland and interrupted it to dash over to Munich for urgent talks

samba

2003-04-04 Thread Noll, Ralph
below is my samba config i can't get zvmlinx1 to show up in my network places what am i doing wrong i can get to it by doing a start run \\zvmlinx1 that works no problem... it just don't show up in MNplaces any help is appreciated Ralph zvmlinx1:/etc/samba # cat smb.conf # Samba config file

Re: Oh,, look who's popped out of the woodwork

2003-04-04 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
No, just a monopoly on stupid lawyers... They say there are three signs of stress in your life. You eat too much junk food, you drive too fast and you veg out in front of the TV. Who are they kidding? That sounds like a perfect day to me! Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM & Linux Servers a

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Adam Thornton
n Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:04:58AM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: > i can't get zvmlinx1 to show up in my network places Well, you're using eth0, which is presumably broadcast-capable...but I bet your desktop and zvmlinx1 are in different subnets. Try setting wins proxy=yes as well. Adam

Re: DASD technology for VM and Linux

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Marcy, In the long run, I want to use the FCP capability that IBM just recently announced. That will let me access storage boxes natively, and not have to go through the blasted 3390 emulation nonsense. When I was at the VM/VSE Tech Conference in October, Neale Ferguson showed me a 200GB partiti

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Noll, Ralph
really i am using hypersockets > -Original Message- > From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: samba > > > n Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:04:58AM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: > > i can't get zvmlinx1 to show up i

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> i can't get zvmlinx1 to show up in my network places > > what am i doing wrong > > i can get to it by doing a start run \\zvmlinx1 Probably your hostname is the same as the netbios name? If so, my guess is it's just falling back to using dns here. > that works no problem... it just don't show

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Is nmbd running? That can sometimes cause this problem, but I wouldn't expect "start run \\zvmlinx1" to work in that case. (As Daniel pointed out, it might work, if you have a DNS entry for zmvlinx1.) I normally specify my "interfaces" parameter as ip.address/24 (or whatever your netmask is). I

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:51:39AM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: > really i am using hypersockets Ah *HA*. HiperSockets don't do broadcast. Try what Mark said about turning on remote announce. Adam

SearchEnterpriseLinux: The Wrong Choice: Firms Balk, Considering Linux Too 'Bleeding Edge'

2003-04-04 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The second story relates to a zSeries shop. I wonder who GK is? See: "http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003040401226NWBZDP"; Some companies don't want to walk on the bleeding edge of a technology. In these true tales from the Linux trenches, two large companies didn't even want to test the edg

Re: Linux/390 Assembler Guru's...

2003-04-04 Thread Lucius, Leland
Paul, You probably already know about it, but IBM's ELF Application Binary Interface Supplement describes the calling conventions quite nicely. http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/documentati on-2.4.19-may2002.shtml Leland

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> > really i am using hypersockets > > Ah *HA*. > > HiperSockets don't do broadcast. Try what Mark said about turning on > remote announce. Well, now the significance of lacking broadcast support really depends on what else you got going on in that subnet. If the samba server is the only smb/cif

NFS mounting z/VM SFS filespace errors

2003-04-04 Thread Roy P Costa
On SuSE SLES7 and SLES8, I am mounting a z/VM SFS filespace and when I try to list the files on the mount, on the console of the Linux z/VM userid gets constant error messages of: NFS: short packet in readdir reply! I have been using this "setup" on a SuSE 2.2.16 to the same SFS for quite a while w

performance

2003-04-04 Thread Noll, Ralph
not to be on the negitive side but the performance of linux on s390 doesn't seem to be as fast as an x86 box do i have something configured wrong.. i am using suse sles8 31 bit for s/390 on a z/800 0a1 running vm 4.3 with 2 vse's and 6 linux instances when i do the ind command.. following.. does

Samba Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Rod Clayton
I have SAMBA set up and running on my Debian 3.0 s390 system. I can see the file share from the "Computers Near Me" screen on my Win 2000 machine. When I double click on the server, I get the error message "\\Ss390 is not accessable. The network path was not found." What do I do to fix this pro

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2003-04-04 Thread Jim Elliott
From: "Noll, Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: performance > the performance of linux on s390 doesn't seem to be as fast as an x86 > box > i am using suse sles8 31 bit for s/390 on a z/800 0a1 running vm 4.3 > with 2 vse's and 6 linux instances when i do the ind command.. > following.. does

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Rod, You might need something like this: browseable = Yes guest account = nobody map to guest = Bad User Some of these are defaults, so they may not show up in your smb.conf file. Do a "testparm | less" command to see what the current values are. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Rod

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2003-04-04 Thread Noll, Ralph
so then why am i running my linux on a z/series and not x/series?? z series and VM is what IBM was selling to so that is what we bought not trying to be rude... just commenting Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Jim Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:56 PM

Re: No Subject

2003-04-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2003-04-04 at 20:55, Jim Elliott wrote: > A z800-0A1 is equivalent (in pure compute power) to a 280MHz Intel > system. Don't forget, this is the second smallest system IBM sells > today in the zSeries family. 280Mhz which x86 CPU out of curiosity ?

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Rod Clayton
Mark, I am using SWAT to configure SABMA. I found browsable = Yes and guest account = yes on the share, but map to guest is not listed. Is there another name for this in SWAT? THanks, Rod >Rod, > >You might need something like this: >browseable = Yes >guest account = nobody >map to guest = Bad

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Noll, Ralph
where is the nmbd logs?? > -Original Message- > From: Daniel Jarboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: samba > > > > i can't get zvmlinx1 to show up in my network places > > > > what am i doing wrong > > > > i can get

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Rod, Under Global Variables Security Options map to guest Mark Post -Original Message- From: Rod Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba Problem Mark, I am using SWAT to configure SABMA. I found browsable =

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2003-04-04 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
We've been over this several times in this list. The beauty of Linux on z/VM is not how much computing power the mainframe has. actually, mainframes don't have a lot of computing power. However, if you run an application that does a LOT of I/O, say a webserver that serves out a LOT of files o

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2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
I would add to this: very fast context switching between tasks. As Barton Robinson has said a number of times: z/VM is very good at managing large numbers of small things. This implies a lot of context switching, which the mainframe design handles quite well. Mark Post -Original Message---

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2003-04-04 Thread Loren Charnley, Jr.
Ralph never said if he was running LINUX on an IFL, if not he needs to be. Loren Charnley, Jr. Tech Support Administrator Family Dollar Stores, Inc. Phone: (704) 847-6961 Ext. 2000 > -Original Message- > From: Post, Mark K [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:33 PM >

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Rod Clayton
Mark, I made the change, and recycled the 2 smb tasks, but the windows client is still giving me an error message: \\Ss390 is not accessable. The network path was not found. Rod >Rod, > >Under Global Variables > Security Options >map to guest > > >Mark Post > >-Original Message- >

Re: No Subject

2003-04-04 Thread Carlos Ordonez
Jim, what are you smoking? Saying goes: Great minds think alike - I say: Great minds think for themselves! Carlos A. Ordonez IBM Corporation Server Consolidation |-+> | | Alan Cox | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| |

Re: NFS mounting z/VM SFS filespace errors

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Roy, I suspect that the 2.2.16 version of SuSE was using NFS V2, and the newer ones are using V3. If the z/VM system is expecting version 2, and getting version 3 protocol stuff, it might throw up errors similar to what you're seeing. You might be able to turn of V3 support in the Linux/390 syst

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2003-04-04 Thread Noll, Ralph
nope.., no IFL..why would i need it?? > -Original Message- > From: Loren Charnley, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: > > > Ralph never said if he was running LINUX on an IFL, if not he > needs to be.

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Rod Clayton
Daniel, I have been looking for them. What directory are they usually in? How do I set one up using SWAT? Thanks, Rod >where is the nmbd logs?? > >> -Original Message- >> From: Daniel Jarboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:02 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> S

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2003-04-04 Thread McKown, John
On a -0A1, the "general purpose" CP is "crippled" or slowed down. If you can afford an IFL, then the IFL runs at "full speed" even on a "crippled" z/800. Are you running a z/OS or z/OS.e workload at all? If not, then I would suggest that you should have gotten a -0LF which is "Linux only". Of cours

Re: samba

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Rod, "log file = " will set the value. testparm | grep "log file" will tell you where they're currently going. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Rod Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: samba Daniel, I have been

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Rod, Make sure you have security = user (or server or domain) and not share. Make sure you have encrypted passwords turned on. Bump your logging level up, and see what, if anything shows up in the smbd logs, either for the smbd task, or your Windows client. log level = 2 (or 3 or 4) log file = /

Re: No Subject

2003-04-04 Thread Steven A. Adams
You can't smoke ignorance. On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:42, Carlos Ordonez wrote: > Jim, what are you smoking? > > > Saying goes: Great minds think alike - I say: Great minds think for > themselves! > > Carlos A. Ordonez > IBM Corporation > Server Consolidation > > > > |-+-

Re: minidisk vs. dedicate

2003-04-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:42, David Boyes wrote: > > But this does not simulate the same effect. > > Field testing seems to indicate that there is a noticeable benefit to > this approach. > Is it equivalent to PAV? Maybe not. Perhaps I don't understand PAV well > enough. I have done some work on th

Re: No Subject

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
I'm not sure who you're referring to as being ignorant or about what, but if it's Jim Elliott and his knowledge of IBM's processor capacities, then you are s wrong. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Steven A. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:02 PM To: [

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Rod Clayton
Mark, Here is the log output with IP addresses altered to protect me. :-) Thanks, Rod ss390:/var/log/samba# cat smb.log [2003/04/04 16:10:17, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(81) added interface ip=nnn.nnn.nnn.5 bcast=nnn.nnn.nnn.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 [2003/04/04 16:10:17, 3] smbd/server.c:m

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2003-04-04 Thread Loren Charnley, Jr.
That is the best environment for LINUX on zSERIES. I have a z800-0A1 with a 80 MIP standard engine and 1 192 MIP IFL engine. I am in the process of installing zVM 4.3 on the IFL engine. The next part of the project is to install SLES 8 under zVM and moving a couple of LINUX instances to it. Afte

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2003-04-04 Thread John Ford
- Original Message - From: "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:57 PM > On a -0A1, the "general purpose" CP is "crippled" or slowed down. If you can > afford an IFL, then the IFL runs at "full speed" even on a "crippled" z/800. > Are yo

Re: performance

2003-04-04 Thread Eddie Chen
It seems that your migrating or testing WEB releated from INTEL to ZVM. Is you problem only in this LINUX instances, how is VSE running? Look at Your IP connection from INTEL(server) to "PC" -vs- ZVM how many router(hops) ??? Are you running APACHE on the INTEL and the

Re: Samba Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Rod, I can't say that tells me much. Were there any entries in the samba log for your specific Windows system? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Rod Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba Problem Mark, Here is

Re: Linux/390 Assembler Guru's...

2003-04-04 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Lucius, Leland wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I did something similar. Except I took C source, compiled it under Linux, > used TAS to assemble it, and linked it up on OS/390 to produce non-LE based > zlib and bzip2 libraries. You can find the libraries in the assembler > section over

Re: whatever happened to the Linux SNA project? Web page is unrea chable.

2003-04-04 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, David Boyes wrote: > > I got curious and went googling. I turned up this snippet at > > http://ftp.nl.linux.org/linux/bk2patch/linux-2.4/SCCS/s.MAINTAINERS: > > SNA NETWORK LAYER > > P: Jay Schulist > > M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > W: ht

Re: Linux in Munich

2003-04-04 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Phil Payne wrote: > http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/getArticleSZ.php?artikel=artikel104.php > > I apologize for yet another German link, but I've just not seen this story anywhere > in > English. > > Basically Steve Ballmer was on a skiing holiday in Switzerland and inte

Re: Linux/390 Assembler Guru's...

2003-04-04 Thread Lucius, Leland
> > For instance, calling BZ2_bzBuffToBuffCompress() would > require you > > to reserve the standard 96 bytes, plus 8 more since it has 7 > > parameters. So: > > > > LR15,Stkptr Get address of stack > > AL R15,=F'4096' Point to end of

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2003-04-04 Thread Paul Raulerson
Hey Jim - is a 0A1 the crippled processor able to run z/OS? Basically, while I am not disputing your expertise, I sure don't follow your logic. I *know* that a 2.8mhz PC system running Linux will bog down, even when connected to an EMC storage unit for DASD, a whole lot faster than a z800 will. :)