[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Nov 26 00:01:30 CST 2002


On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 12:57 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> I thought that all the 390s could run linux from inside VM, but that
> ones that could run linux natively were more selective.  However, if 
> you
> are running linux natively, you aren't going to being doing any more
> than 1 instance.

   I didn't know they had it on bare iron yet.

> I'd be surprised if those machines on eBay came with licenses (even if
> the OS is still installed), and getting a license would be costly.
> However, for all the lesser machines you could replace with it, it 
> might
> be decent anyway.

   Licenses?  Oh of course not, man...we're talking about scrap houses 
making the "big means old and obsolete" assumption.  You can buy them 
from resellers, and get licenses, for tens of thousands of dollars to 
start.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
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