[Gllug] Lindows

[Gordon Joly]

I am enlightened...

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Cheers!

Gordo

At 21:28 +0000 2001-11-21, Ian Northeast wrote:
>Gordon Joly wrote:
>>
>>  MVS used to that on IBM mainframe hardware (simultaneous operating 
>>systems)....
>
>Not quite. It is the hardware/firmware which enables the running of
>simultaneous operating systems, by means of "logical partitioning"
>(LPAR). MVS (OS/390, zOS) is just one of the operating systems which can
>run in an LPAR on the S/390 (eServer-z or something like that) hardware.
>And what's with the "used to"? IBM mainframes are still with us and are
>still bloody good at what they do (massive I/O).
>
>Linux is another such OS BTW, although its main mainframe application is
>to run hundreds of Linux images in a single partition using VM (which of
>course can be in an LPAR).
>
>Interestingly the latest range of servers Sun are producing appear to
>have the same facility and are being marketed as "mainframes". Plus ca
>change and all that.
>
>Regards, Ian
>
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