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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
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In article <v3d9bh$s9a$2@gal.iecc.com>, johnl@taugh.com (John Levine)
wrote:

> I have to say I'm somewhat surprised that IBM has put a lot of 
> effort into running linux on zSeries, since that's about as 
> un-captive as you can get. I would imagine that for some kinds 
> of heavily threaded workloads they could be competitive since 
> the z machines have upwards of a hundred CPUs with a shared 
> mostly consistent cache.

It seems to have been the easiest way to get zSeries used for web serving
and other internet tasks. Getting Linux software running on zSeries that
way is /much/ easier than porting it to z/OS or z/VSE. 

John