On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:43:38 -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler
<[email protected]> wrote:
>--
>40+yrs virtualization exerience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (Or something
like that.)
Thank you for sharing - once again I learned something(s) new. I never knew
what HONE stood for, nor it's original purpose. In the services arena, we
attempted to keep this self-training exercise going, but IBM had such a hard
time deciding what to do about "small mainframes" and their customers, that
our regional P/390 died a slow and painful death (though it did serve a useful
purpose for a couple of years). Since we could not fund a Multiprise to
replace it (which had a short shelf life itself), we began investigating VM
accounts in Pok or Kingston as a way to keep it going ("son of HONE"?), but
before that could gain traction, I was let go, and shortly thereafter, what was
left of my team was disbanded and scattered to the four winds.
We are fortunate here to be large enough to have dedicated LPARs for a
sandbox / training environment, but we are using VM guests for another major
project. Works quite well, including full-blown parallel sysplex. That was
one
of the shortcomings of our P/390 sandbox - the CF guest support wasn't yet
available to us.
Regards,
Art Gutowski
Ford Motor Company
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