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

From: Ian Primus <ian_primus_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Dec 4 04:37:17 2003

On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 09:20 PM, 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?
>
> 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.

The only reason I would consider running Linux is because I was worried
that I wouldn't be able to find the proper operating system for this
beast. I always prefer to run the original operating system on a
machine, unless I can't get ahold of it, in which case, Linux is a good
choice, since it seems to run on anything.

Ian Primus
ian_primus_at_yahoo.com
Received on Thu Dec 04 2003 - 04:37:17 GMT