I have an AS/400 in my trunk...

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Thu Dec 4 00:04:08 2003

Around I think 94-ish IBM and Novell teamed up and you could layer
Netware onto OS/400, this would allow you to retain the OS and add some
additioanl accessibility/functionality to it.



Curt


William Donzelli wrote:

>>Anyway, anyone know anything about this beast? I've only done a little
>>googleing, which hasn't turned up any information on the hardware. I
>>need to find at least one drive carrier, and an operating system for
>>it. Does Linux run well (if at all) on the AS/400?
>>
>>
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>There has been talk, but I don't think anything ever surfaced.
>
>Anyway - why would anyone *want* to run anything but OS/400 on an AS/400?
>
>Not to cut down Linux at all, but once you install it on any machine, you
>pretty much strip out all of the character of the system. OS/400, like
>VMS, has a very definite flavor.
>
>William Donzelli
>aw288_at_osfn.org
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Received on Thu Dec 04 2003 - 00:04:08 GMT