Nick Holland wrote:
There's a lot of reasons developers can be interested in particular hardware
The P series are perfectly good systems for AIX, Linux, and i Series OS (OS400). They would also be fine for OpenBSD if there were any call for that, but in the IBM community, the open-source *nix niche was filled in the 1999 by IBM mutineers creating a Linux port. The technology spread from the 390 to the AS400 and the P series (which latter subsumed the AS400). All attempts to revisit the issue of *nix-on-IBM-big-iron have been spectacularly unsuccessful at gaining adherents, e.g., the excellent SOL390 (Open Solaris for mainframes) port was born only to die a lonely death.
-- Jack Woehr # "We commonly say we have no time when, Box 51, Golden CO 80402 # of course, we have all that there is." http://www.softwoehr.com # - James Mason, _The Art of Chess_, 1905
