Wesley Parish wrote:
Why not talk IBM into making ultra-cheap (within limits of course) s/390-z900 PCI cards for PCs and use this to kill as many birds with one stone as possible? Ie, you buy the IBM PC, you buy the card, you pay for the hobbyist license, you take a short course (run by IBM of course) on running and managing a zOS or zVM box (or both, if you've decided to afford it), you get the appropriate books, then the IBM representative says with a big smile, "Welcome to the world of Big Iron. If you wish to take your studies any further, here are the contacts for the ITOs ..."
Now that systems are sufficiently fast, I doubt that a hardware solution to the Intel zSeries problem will sell. Flex runs zSeries operating systems at very impressive speeds.
Wouldn't that be part and parcel of the standard agreement between IBM and the hobbyist? If you have a current license, you have free access to all the appropriate fixes.
I would certainly hope so. It isn't rocket science to read the PSP bucket doc and get the HIPERs.
But isn't that part and parcel of what being a hobbyist is all about? Get the docs, get the relevant software and hardware, and scratch one's head and pester one's peers, not the effing bureaucrats ... ;) Besides, one's peers endure the pestering, it seems, since it makes them feel important! ;) <snip>
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