The absurdities of IBM's tactics to force hardware upgrades. Performance is relative. At my age, I don't perform as well as in my 20's.
In my 20's mainframes didn't perform as well as a 9672 running Linux with an emulated z10 and z/VM. I guess it just depends on what you want to do. Your doubts about IBM licensing are well founded. Something really stinks there... On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:26 AM, O'Brien, Dennis L <dennis.l.o'[email protected]> wrote: >>You could load up Linux 390 on that box. Run Hercules on Linux, >>Emulate a z10 and run z/VM 6.1. > > 1. Performance would be terrible. > > 2. I doubt IBM would license z/VM 5.x or z/VM 6.1 on a processor that can't > normally run it. > > Dennis > > "See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite, and gunpowder... And > gasoline! Do you know what all of these things have in common? They're > cheap!" -- Heath Ledger as The Joker, in The Dark Knight > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike
