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On Thursday 11 April 2002 21:52, you wrote:
> This is off topic - someone just gave me an AS/400 eServer (about 4 years
> old and apparently obsolete). Besides trying to figure out where I'll put
> it (it's huge) I need to figure out how to use it and/or what it might be
> useful for. At the very least, the components seem to be SCSI (3 disks
> (raid?), tape, cdrom) so I might be able to strip them out of the unit for
> use elsewhere. But before I do that, does anyone know what the whole unit
> might be good for? I hear that IBM has linux running on the AS/400 in
> virtual partitions. Anything besides that?
AS/400 is one of the most solid minicomputer platforms ever devised-- and
it's OS is so stable, there were actually IBMers and IBM customers who
questioned the wisdom and/or necessity of porting Linux to it. It still
lives on as the iSeries e(logo)Server and is still in production today at
many large companies. CIGNA, my company, has at least one and maybe more.
As was stated, only certain generations can run Linux at all, and none except
the latest can run it natively without at least one of the partitions running
OS/400. It's basically an S/390 Jr., in that it's architecture has much more
in common with mainframes than with client/server systems.
I have now exhausted my knowledge of the AS/400. However, I do work with
some people who know the system very well (being administrators). If you
like, e-mail me privately and I'll see if I can hook you up with one of them.
-Beldon
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