as400 wrote:
Well, thanks for this information..I really appreciate it...
And lastly, can Solaris (UNIX) be ran on a Mainframe or not? Because
you said:
" would say that most of the systems were mainframe based (IBM and
Unisys) and non-Unix based OS's:"
Please advise.
It depends on your definition of what a "mainframe" is. That I am aware
of Solaris can only be run on x86 systems and systems based on Sun's
Sparc processor. I have not seen a x86 system or a Sparc system labeled
as a "mainframe." I have seen some advertised as "mainframe like
performance" and "mainframe like relibility", but I have not (at least I
do not remember any) seen Sun advertise one of their boxes as a mainframe.
If you remove the "(IBM and Unisys)" you have:
" would say that most system were mainframe based and non-Unix based OS
's".
Meaning both mainframe and non-Unix. As Solaris is Unix it does not fit
in the above category. The reason for my statements is that I know that
IBM is not the only company that has made mainframes and that mainframe
traditionally do not run a OS that is called "Unix." You hear about
people with IBM mainframes running z/OS, z/VM, etc or I have a Unisys
xxx running MCP (I think that is the OS name).
The part where it starts getting confusing is that z/OS is branded
"Unix", as is it predecessors (MVS with the Open Edition option and
OS/390). When most people say Unix they mean things like AIX, Solaris,
HP-UX, and SCO Unix. They normally do not mean z/OS.
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