McKown, John wrote: >Just a guess on my part, but the OP may know that Linux runs natively on many >hardware systems: i386, x86_64, Power, i, and z.
True, if you can port the source or the compiled object codes to that platform. The C language is very handy for such porting. (disclaimer - I have NO experience in such things) >He may have been wondering if z/OS could also run on multiple architectures. Hercules for example? But then there is licensing issues. Search the archives. Unrelated question, now we're on this jolly joyride: Is it true that z/VM can be run on a Pentium machine? Perhaps as a guest under Linux / Unix or Win7 (Virtual machine)? Just curious of course. >Along these lines, "mainframe" does not always mean "IBM z" system. There are >vendors who consider an Itanium to be a "mainframe". Personally, I liked >whatever it was they ran in Eureka! "If you can't crawl around inside it, it's >not a mainframe!" I like this version: if you can't steal it (hardware), it is a mainframe! ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
