On Thu, 12 May 2005 00:16, Wesley Parish wrote: <snip>
> AS/400s are midrange, what used to be called minicomputers back in the days > when DEC was still around - VaX is the another midrange, and so is Sun's > SPARC and of course, the Alpha. Modern AS/400s are 64bit PowerPC machines; > they used to have their own chip, which was a 48bit one; AS/400s have a > virtual machine structure as well. AS/400s aren't compatible in any real > sense with the S390/z900 family, though I don't doubt you can get some > useful pointers from the books - IBM also runs Linux on the modern AS/400, > in a separate "partition" to OS/400 - since OS/400 is a virtual machine's > guest OS, all that is needed is to IPL (Initial Program Load) Linux and > OS/400 in different virtual machines. > > Have I bored you to tears yet? ;) So does the HP 9000 K Class sitting in my garage count as a mainframe? I've managed to get it to boot Debian so far... Wayne
