| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:47:45 -0400 |
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:15:59PM -0700, multiple seriousity wrote: > "4 years old and apparently obsolete" - did you really need to say > apparently obsolete? isn't it redundant...? of course it's obsolete, if it > wasn't.. what fun would it be? :D Um... the folks at (my) work would be pretty upset if you described their many-more-years-old System 390 that way, as would any of the many places using anything Cray ever made. > Maybe NetBSD? Only if you want to do the porting work yourself: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/#suggested-ports (Suggested, as in, the machine independent code would take care of many of your hardware problems, but getting the thing to boot is non-trivial, as no one's done it yet... there'll be massive bootloader complications, and then you'll have to figure out the quirks in that machine's bus(ses).) > Hey, you could always fiddle around and learn it's actual native OS. IBM OSes are pretty neat, but definitely not what anyone who's used to Unix-like OSes is used to. They're strictly batch-oriented, for one thing, they have a lot of unfamiliar concepts (logical machine partitions, disk is often thought of as virutal tape, word size for zOS, IBM's newest which'll run you vaguely 1.5 mil for a 390 is 1 megabyte). Mother of a friend of mine (from swarthmore.edu) is an IBM OS developer and did a talk at Swarthmore's OS class last year; if she didn't live in New York state somewhere, I'd say she should be asked to do a PLUG presentation. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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