Re: IBM 390

["James A. Treacy" <treacy@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 06:50:25PM +0000, Sid Sorenson wrote:
> The company I am working for has an ES9000 9121 Model 742 running the
> 390 instruction set comming off of lease 4th quarter of this year. The
> buyout is around $1.00 so my boss just asked me if Linux runs on the
> machine. OS390 is very expensive, so we probably won't be able to
> justify running it on the box after 3rd or 4th quarter this year.
> 
> I have 2 questions. Is there or is there going to be a Debian port that
> will run on this archetecture??
> 
> Assuming that the answer to that question is no, is there anyone out
> there willing to help port Debian to it???
> 
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
mechanism to bootstrap the thing, then adding most of the non-graphical
programs shouldn't be too bad.

Jay Treacy