Wayne Rooney wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2005 00:16, Wesley Parish wrote:
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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
No, A K is definitely a mini in my book. If which one... K420?
Steve 'Certified HP-UX Systems Administrator - with embossed toolkit to prove it'!
