kpneal@pobox.com said:

>IBM has a new box they're coming out with that has been crippled to
>not run normal MVS (or VSE?). It does run VM, and it does run Linux. 
>I think the box is being sold with some number of years support for
>VM and Linux. 

It's still a $400000 Linux box. :-)

>Also, IBM may be factoring into that 1 billion USD things like the 
>instructions they built into their new processors to replace function
>calls to things like strcpy(). Yes, they have a strcpy instruction
>now. (Weird.) 

However, on their website they don't offer any Power systems with Linux,
they all come with AIX 5L, that has a Linux emulation layer.

>You know, with a VM system tailored to spin up Linux virtual machines
>in a jiffy it might be simple to convince people to try out NetBSD/390. 
>One day. 

Someone posted a while back that they were doing just that. Porting NetBSD
to OS/390 running on Hercules, a 390 emulator that runs on UNIX. 

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