My 13 year old 8th grade son runs Linux on his Xbox, and Hercules on our
desktop Linux systems.  I'll have to ask him if he ever got around to
running Herc and MVS on his Xbox.  I'm pretty sure he did, but I can't
keep up with all the neat stuff he does. The biggest pain about running
Linux on the Xbox is the on screen keyboard that you have to use.    

For anyone thinking running Hercules is too much trouble or too hard or
whatever, I came home from work one day and he had MVS running under VM
under Hercules on Linux. He had gotten all the information about how to
do this from the Internet.  When he complained about MVS console
configuration and figuring out how to get it to work with VM, I knew he
had felt all the pain he ever needed to feel about mainframes.  

Scott Ledbetter
StorageTek

  

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
John Campbell
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Some comments on the new XBox


It strikes me that M$ may be looking to re-use part of the S/360 theme
with their new XBox.

(laughs maniacally)

It sounds like the "all purpose" game system that can do all of the
computing chores within a household--  so the XBox 360 takes care of the
"full circle"...  Sounds familiar, don't it?

Now all we need is a S/360 (390, zSeries) emulator on it...

The XBox 360 PE:  Punchcard Edition

(shakes head)

"You are the MS-DOS of evil:  only 640K... not evil enough!"

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Adsumo ergo raptus sum
MacOS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging
Windows. Red Hat Certified Engineer (#803004680310286)

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