Re: IBM 390

[Jor-el <jorel@ibm.net>]

Jay,

	I work at IBM too, and I had heard about this on the internal
fora. Since I was bound by my confidentiality agreement about statement
made on those fora, I didnt mention it. But now that the cat is out of the
bag...

	The thing to remember about this (and there were very few details
mentioned) is that IBM management did its best to squash the port into
non-existence : Linux on S/390 hardware would be a direct competitor to
Open-Edition MVS - which is the IBM version of UNIX on OS/390. So I
wouldnt hold my breath waiting for a URL, or for IBM to release the code.
I doubt if they would even sell it.

Regards,
Jor-el 

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 07:44:39PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> > > The big question is whether the kernel supports it. I doubt this is
> > > the case. Once the kernel supports the architecture and there is a
> > 
> > You are wrong.  There was a port of Linux to the 360/390 series internal to
> > IBM.  A summer intern whipped it up.  It doesn't replace the uberOS, but it
> > is runnable as one of the OS's "inside" the virtual machine.
> > 
> Sometimes it is good to be wrong.
> 
> I'm sure the original poster would like a URL or a contact address if
> you have one. If they will release it for use by others it would be
> a step forward.
> 
> Jay Treacy
> 
> 
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