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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Inside an IBM z17
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 17:20:38 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Marco Moock  <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>On 01.05.2025 22:16 Uhr Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> What exactly are they good for? Nothing, really, except perhaps 
>> compatibility with ancient legacy code that has long passed its EOL,
>> just like the companies that might still be running it.
>
>Linux can run on IBM z, so you can do anything that Linux can do on
>those machines.

This is actually kind of interesting, because thanks to VM you can have
one LPAR that is running your database in a stripped down mainframe
operating system, and another LPAR running a web front end in Linux.
--scott


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