Hmm, what about the i370 aka Bigfoot? Other than physically, how did the p370 differ from the s/370? To quote from a document/webpage attributed to you: <quote> Linux on the System/390 is an idea that has been being kicked around since Linux's earliest days, but not much was done until 1998 or so. Linas Vepstas and others began a port of Linux, called "Bigfoot", which was an implementation that ran on System/370 (the 390's predecessor) and later processors. By early December 1999, Bigfoot would boot and usually load /bin/sh before panicking and crashing. </quote> Granted, it says system 370 and not p370.
Inquiring minds . . yadda, yadda Steve G. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:31 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system On Mar 26, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Gentry, Stephen wrote: > It will work on an IS (been there done that) but painfully slow. Would > the p390 actually have to be a p390e? I started to work on it a few > times on a p370 but kept getting side tracked on other stuff. > Steve G Mine *was* a p390E. I don't know if it would have worked on a straight-up p390. Modern Linuxes don't run on p390-class machines anymore, I think. Halfword immediate instructions maybe? p370 couldn't run Linux, so you'd be dead in the water there. Adam
