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[Brian Hechinger]

On 11/20/2012 10:23 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
According to Wikipedia, AIX/ESA will run as host or guest on System/370... if I read it right.

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On 20 Nov 2012, at 14:28, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:

Dave McGuire wrote:
Well I could use a copy of AIX370....
If you could, you'd be the first!   What a waste of a perfectly good mainframe.
    I have to agree.   I love UNIX, but running anything other than MVS on
something like that, or maybe VM, is just a sin.
Why not as a VM guest?

Peace...   Sridhar

Hello!
Close but no noxious smoking device Mark.

That was AIX/ESA. I'm talking about AIX/370. And according to one
associate on another two lists, (One I manage.) that one ran on one
specific customer's machines in the same area that one of our
associates is based in.

If John Wilson is correct and it also ran on the mainframe there,
sharing space with the MTS setup then it adds to the mysteries behind
the product.
And to add the the amusement I also met a family of machines running
ESA grade operating systems, a good long time ago, also a crowd of
RS/6000 machines and a very unhappy IBMer. The surprised look the
woman gave me was worth it.


To add to the data points, PSU ran AIX in a VM on their 370 as well. It may have been AIX/ESA instead of AIX/370 as I don't remember the particulars anymore.

-brian