[rescue] mmmm power

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Thu Aug 15 17:50:50 CDT 2002


> > I remember the feeling when I logged into my first Unix account (I believe
> > it was on a Sparcstation 10).  I just got an account on the largest
> > big beefy iron server yet:
> >
> > FSUM2386 No shell program was specified in the user profile.
> > ('/bin/sh') is used.
> > $ uname
> > OS/390
> > $ uname -a
> > OS/390 AOC2 10.00 O2 9672
> >
> > One of the mainframe guys gave me access to what they call 'Unix
> > services'.  apparently a lot of mainframe processes are run through the
> > Unix side now.
> 
>    Mmmm, great big balls.  Oh shit, that's a 9672!  Sridhar has one of 
> those, it almost killed me when it started rolling and pinned me against 
> the inside of the truck.  Sridhar has to move his own big iron now!

We've got a few Linux LPARs loaded on a Z47.  In a couple of
months we're upgrading to a Freeway box.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net
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