Kevin Gates wrote: > Greetings Everyone, > > As I am investigating vendor support for Linux/390, I have run into a > question I cannot answer. Vendors want to know if Linux/390 emulates Intel > architecture. Apparently, when programming in C, they have to write the > application to the specific architecture and that it will not work on > non-Intel based systems. Is this an issue which can be resolved as part of > a recompile? Good C is portable to other architectures, but requires recompiling.
The instruction set on s390 is nothing like IA32. If you were brave and patient, you could run something like Bochs which interprets PC hardware. - Alex -- Alex deVries Principal Architect, Linuxcare Canada, Inc. (613) 562 2759 Linuxcare. Simplifying Server Consolidation.
