On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:29:45 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > >I'm certainly no expert (which is why I'm asking), but it seems to me >that this really isn't a good idea. IMHO it isn't a mainframe if it is >running on an 80x86 box.
I agree. In particular, there is a lot of hardware error checking, with resulting machine check interrupts if the hardware is unable to recover. x86 offers nothing comparable. > I actually think IBM should have a say in what >sort of hardware their software can be licensed to run on. They did >this with Amdahl didn't they? I'm not sure what you mean about Amdahl. AFAIK, there was never a problem getting a license from IBM to run on an Amdahl processor. Aside from that, I agree with your analysis completely. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
