4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
8:39 a.m.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, William Donzelli wrote:
There's an IBM-written port to the newer (read RISC) AS/400 iron.
Anyway, anyone
know anything about this beast? I've only done a little
googleing, which hasn't turned up any information on the hardware. I
need to find at least one drive carrier, and an operating system for
it. Does Linux run well (if at all) on the AS/400?
There has been talk, but I don't think anything ever surfaced.
Anyway - why would anyone *want* to run anything but OS/400 on an AS/400? Not to cut down Linux at all, but once you install it
on any machine,
you pretty much strip out all of the character of the system. OS/400,
like VMS, has a very definite flavor.
Indeed.
Peace... Sridhar