I think the question is about Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project in partnership with a bunch of people.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/08/linux-foundation-brings-together-industry-heavyweights-advance https://www.openmainframeproject.org/ Regards, Dimitri. On 12 December 2015 at 01:27, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ -- Regards, Dimitri. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
