[rescue] AS/400 question

Mike Hebel nimitz at speakeasy.net
Thu Jun 5 17:35:11 CDT 2003


On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 05:23 PM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:

>>    They do?  Why did the Linux guys have such a hard time finding it?
>> They eventually gave up, from what I read.
>
> Just so we're on the same page, I'm talking about the RISC ones, not the
> CISC.
>
> You just have to pay for it.  IBM publishing sells this kind of stuff 
> for
> writing commercial software on larger systems.  I have all the ones from
> S/370 (original) all the way to z/Arch.  They're cheap too.

So what you're saying is that the two large white boxes I've passed up 
in my life, complete with tapes, are something I should be kicking 
myself for not collecting and learning on? (0)

And why don't they publish the CISC ones?  Don't they _want_ outside 
apps written for it.... *blink* Duhh....nevermind...

Hmmm...I wonder if the one company still has the one system...

*smacks self in face*
Bad Mike!  Moving now!  Hardware _after_ you move!
;-)

Mike

(0) The one was literally "Take it away if you want it.  I'll even run 
you an OS tape."  Gaah! I can't believe I missed out on that one...
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