Is that a mainframe in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hall, Ken (IDS DCS PE) Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Some comments on the new XBox How about Hercules on the Nintendo DS? Someone's already ported Linux.. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Adam Thornton > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Some comments on the new XBox > > > On May 12, 2005, at 9:51 AM, David Boyes wrote: > > >> Now all we need is a S/360 (390, zSeries) emulator on it... > >> > > > > Adam! Down boy! Down! Sit! > > > > 8-) > > > Well, let's face it. Once some enterprising souls figure out how to > run arbitrary third-party software on the NEXT generation of > consoles, we're going to be seeing some real computational power. > They're all multi-core Cell Processor systems with ATI video. > > Given that there are Linux ports to the PS2, the GameCube, and the > xBox, it should not be hard--once people figure out how to execute > arbitrary code on the new systems--to get Linux on it, and from > there, Hercules is pretty trivial. > > In fact, when I again have copious free time, I may update my > GameCube Linux distro, and build Hercules on it. It's a small box-- > only 24 MB RAM--but 16MB is plenty to run VM/370 or MVS 3.8. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO > LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
