Hmmm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mainframe
That's entirely different from what I thought it was. Neverrrrrr Minnnnnnndddd -soup On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:23 PM, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Open Mainframe? News to me. > > Mainframes require three criteria: > > 1) Maximum *reliable* single-thread performance (see the "Linux on S/390" > redbook "Appendix A" for how reliability is tricked out); > 2) Maximum I/O throughput; and > 3) Maximum I/O connectivity. > > Admittedly, criterion 3 is kind of undercut by SAN technology. > > Additionally, the instruction set need not mimic the zSeries to be a > mainframe. We already know that handling memory access faults in IBM's SS > instructions for virtual machine functionality that much harder to pull > off... > > Now you've all just added to my reading list. > > (laughs maniacally) > > "You are the MS-DOS of Evil... Only 640K... Not EVIL Enough!" > > -soup > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Christer Solskogen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I haven't seen that been discussed here. Are any of you guys involved >> somehow? >> >> -- >> chs >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> > > > > -- > John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot > com > MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows > "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; > Regardless > of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail > because, > somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me > -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; Regardless of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because, somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
