On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:38 AM Farley, Peter x23353 < [email protected]> wrote:
> John, > > It isn't just the $900 per year for the ADCD OS license. You can’t > legally get ADCD without the ~$5K yearly cost of the zPDT dongle and Linux > hardware emulation layer to run the OS's. That's the real kicker. > > OTOH I wouldn't be surprised if bad-actor state security organizations (or > US security skunkworks organizations for that matter) haven't already > reverse-engineered the zPDT dongle for their own nefarious uses. > Paranoid? Maybe, maybe not. > I have read "elsewhere" that some people got at least some earlier versions of z/OS to run on a PC using Hercules/390. So the "bad actor" states likely can run z/OS. > > Peter > > > -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
