Hello from Gregg C Levine I haven't Stephen. What I had forgotten most of, is the steps to getting to this process. That of the entire process of building an entire distribution for a Zseries. What we've covered in the past few days, is a good collection of those facts. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Stephen Frazier > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Germany 1; Microsoft 0 > > Don't forget that this list started as a means for the people working on > BigFoot to keep in touch with each other. They started on the VM list > that Marist hosts but decided quickly that they needed there own list so > Marist offered to hot it also. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 11:28:03 -0400 Post, Mark K said: > > > >>It's all in the archives, if you're really interested. Essentially Linas > >>(with a fair amount of angst) believed that there was no way the Bigfoot > >>project would ever be able to "compete" with a well-funded full time team > > > >>from IBM that was further along. So, it was dropped. > > > >>Mark Post > > > > > > Just for the record, as I've shown in several presentations, > > > > The 1st discussion I've found about running Linux on VM is > > August 25, 1994 by Rick Troth. I've yet to hear anyone discussing > > the ideas or concept prior to this. There is also significant work > > Rick did on VNIX, which is a major concept that Linux for zSeries > > can/will/is using. I also credit the FreeVM project from Terrence > > Zellers. These were major discussions and concepts that got the > > user community started working and thinking about this. > > > > And then there is Bigfoot and the i370 development, which has its > > own history. > > > > All 4 of these predessors to the current system were total user > > supported and developed. All four were important to the development > > and acceptance of the current system. > > > > /ahw > > > -- > Stephen Frazier > Information Technology Unit > Oklahoma Department of Corrections > 3400 Martin Luther King > Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 > Tel.: (405) 425-2549 > Fax: (405) 425-2554 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
