On Friday 08 March 2002 12:48 pm, Post, Mark K wrote: > Well, it's Friday, and I'm just about to leave on my 9 hour drive home. > There wasn't a whole lot of z800 stuff. Jim Elliott and company had one on > the floor of the Tech Exchange, so they could let people see, smell and > touch it. Oddly enough, it looks pretty much like a z900. :) They got a > fair number of people looking it over, and I told him I wouldn't mind > having one in my basement, but it's a little too expensive. :(
Well...I've finally got my wish and have an S/390 at home. Okay, I don't have a real one, but at least I've got something. Thanks to some help from Kris Van Hees, my company laptop is now rockin' an' rollin' with Hercules. 6.54 MIPS on a ThinkPad T22. Still working on getting the CTC networking to work, but I have the Marist Linux/390 distro booting up and I have a DASD (virtual 3390-1) formatted and usable so far. My kernel is built for the needed tun/tap module now (thanks to a 3-hour layover in Cincinnati on the way home from SHARE) and the module loads. I ran out of battery before I could get further than that. Hercules is, IMO, seriously cool. Now to get a real installation of it onto my beefier desktop machine at home. (Message to wife: "Dear Kathie...I really really really need, for business reasons, to buy that dual-processor 1.6 GHz machine...") I'm sorry I didn't make it down to the exhibit hall to see the z800, though. (Would that have fit into my JavaOne backpack? Hmmmm.... I am reminded of the old Johnny Cash song, "I Got It One Piece At A Time.") Speaking of SHARE, the IBM folks (Richard Lewis and Chuck Morse) who ran the S/390 Linux installation lab did a *fabulous* job. Everyone who mentioned this three-part session in my hearing absolutely raved about it, and the things I learned in that session translated directly into what I've just done with Hercules (see above). Kris helped me with the device definition file but I used the lab handouts as my installation manual for Linux itself. > Scott Courtney put in some > dazzling performances for his talks. For someone who hasn't done a lot of > public speaking, he's _very_ good at it. (David, Adam, he did you proud, > no doubt about it.) Gee, umm...thanks. And the bribe check to you is in the mail, just as I promised. ;-) Seriously... I want to thank a couple of people on this list for being very supportive of my first SHARE presentations. I was more than a little nervous going into this, and it meant a great deal to me to have friendly faces around. A virtual beer to Terry Moore and Tom Geyer from Timken, Mark Post, Nick Flaunne of NIST (whose last name I've probably misspelled badly), Rich Smrcina, Rick Troth, and Neale Ferguson. (And Nick, if you're on this list, I didn't mean to run off at the airport without saying goodbye -- I bent over to pick up my suitcase and when I turned around you were gone.) It was great to get to meet so many folks from this list, in person. A lot of you have known each other for years, but as a relative newcomer I am very glad to be able to put names with faces. Kind regards, Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999)
