[HECnet] MVS and DecNet

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa

El 04/08/2012, a les 23:19, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure:
I just checked Amazon and they didn't have any z-series boxes for reasonable prices.

Also the power and cooling would kinda suck, methinks.

There used to be a "mainframe in a card" thing... I think the name was something like P/390. IIRC it was a MCA card with a 390 processor which could be attached to a PS/2 personal computer.


Sampsa


On 5 Aug 2012, at 00:18, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 08/04/2012 04:18 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I just had an absolutely insane idea: I'm gonna run Debian S/390 and try to get the DECNET stack running on that.

What do you guys think?

I think it sounds like lots of fun.   It'd be even MORE fun if you're
able to do it on real hardware.

                    -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA