[SunRescue] Solaris on an iPAQ?

[Ken Hansen]

The iPaq he mentions is the palmtop - porting Solaris to a "legacy-free"
machine would be a trivial exercise, and worth very little discussion, IMHO.

The IBM OS that was ported to PC hardware relied on a PC/370 card, that had
"re-programmed" MC68000 CPUs that ran a useful subset of the full IBM 370
architecture. The cards were not cheap, until IBM stopped supporting them. I
saw them a few years ago for sale at about $50/set, without software. (just
add your own VM license!)

IBM has made several attempts to leverage IBM 370 architecture with low-cost
MIPs, but none really took off, IIRC.

Fooling people to think I have a "mainframe in my palm" is not soemthing I
would value at $60/mo.

;^)

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Giagnocavo" <patrick at www.zill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Solaris on an iPAQ?


> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:37:53PM -0500, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > Haw Haw Haw.
> >
> > I can't believe you said that... Why not WinNT/embedded?
> >
> > The Solaris Kernel would demand more resources than the iPaq
> > has - the iPaq has a non-supported platform (rewrite the kernel
> > to run on a 32 Meg palmtop w 200x200 color display?)...
>
> Are you sure that he isn't asking about the x86-based non-upgradeable
> boxes with built-in Ethernet?
>
> > (Could we port VM to my Libretto? It would be so cool to have
> > multiple MVS instances running on my 3 pound mini-laptop!)
>
> Actually, I think that there was a company that ported one of the IBM
> mainframe OSes to PC hardware.  Maybe it was the System/38 stuff
> though.
>
> If you got a wireless CDPD modem and paid $60/month for unlimited
> access, then you could SSH to anything and fool people into thinking
> you had done it locally, even a Beowulf cluster... "yeah, I factored a
> Mersenne prime, here, watch me do it again..."
>
> ./patrick
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