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

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Thu Dec 4 16:39:12 2003

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, 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?

There's an IBM-written port to the newer (read RISC) AS/400 iron.

> 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.

Indeed.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Dec 04 2003 - 16:39:12 GMT