Linux on the mainframe was made available almost 10 years ago
(Christmas, 1999). The experiment you are referring to was done shortly
after that.
Yeah... a 'few' years ago, but a *lot* has changed since then.
Staller, Allan wrote:
IIRC, an experiment was done a few years back to see how many Linux
images could be started in an IFL using z/VM. IIRC, HW resources ran out
before the software architecture limits were reached. ISTR > 32k images
running concurrently (no useful work, just how many can be started).
As to Linux images doing useful work, the answer is "it depends".
HTH,
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