[ale] OT: How different is z/OS from Linux/Unix?

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If it's similar to the Mprise 3000 chip-wise it should run up to z/OS
1.4 with a mountain of PTF's.
If you're looking for the MVS experience then it'd probably do OS390
2.10 very well.

William




On 03/05/2010 12:21 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 03/05/2010 09:29 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>   
>> If you're just jonesin' to spend some cash:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-Mainframe-S390-9672-G6-Parallel-Enterprise-Server_W0QQitemZ230398465933QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Workstations?hash=item35a4d1978d
>>
>> $3k
>>     
> Oh, that's cheap. Jim, don't show me these things! I want to put it in
> my imaginary garage right next to the Altix UGA is retiring.
>
> That model actually doesn't support z/OS; the G6 was their last
> mainframe chip before the 64-bit Z/Architecture. However, it will run
> Debian.
>
>   

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