On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> IBM already has very capable hardware available. They probably already > have a nice z emulator that runs on power hardware, just not the software > licensing in order to run z/OS on it. > Most likely, given that they have a zArch emulator which run on X86. > > An IBM Power8 S824 machine, 4u in height, 24 3.5gh cores, 2T memory, > 7 PCIe card slots could run a modest sized z/OS installation indeed. > I would almost bet that they won't however because it would probably eat into their true z hardware sales. Especially if you make that machine an IBMi capable one. It could then run AIX, Linux, IBM i, and IBM z software all on the same machine under PowerVM. All that would be missing (wonderfully by me) would be Windows. > > Dana > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
