From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX on S/370
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:27:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201711201927.vAKJRPqj006781@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VTE3aPE=+i_W9m9bNjWUGDaVBa==dqBQ6DVFtN1xYDjBg@mail.gmail.com>
Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/20/17, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe this is my lack of knowledge of VM showing, but how did having VM
> > help
> > you over running on the bare hardware?
>
> It would mean that you wouldn't have to implement machine check
> support and other hardware error handling. The VM hypervisor would do
> that for you. It would also let you run multiple versions of UNIX
> simultaneously. Very convenient if you're doing kernel or driver
> development.
The "simpler hardware handling" is a big inducement to building
on top of VM. Or at least starting out that way.
Even though AIX/370 was aimed at the educational market, my impression
is that it was still pretty expensive. When I worked at the Emory U
computing center (mid 80s) I heard about it, but management wasn't
interested in trying to get it for their S/390.
I'm pretty sure I remember hearing at some point, I don't remember when,
that AIX/370 could run either under VM or on bare iron.
Any idea what Linux/370 does? I think it runs on bare iron.
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-20 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-20 16:05 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 16:37 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-20 16:47 ` Charles H Sauer
2017-11-20 17:44 ` Toby Thain
2017-11-20 19:07 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-20 19:10 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-20 19:36 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-20 19:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-20 19:39 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-20 19:56 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-20 19:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-20 19:27 ` arnold [this message]
2017-11-20 19:29 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-20 22:56 ` Michael Parson
2017-11-20 23:23 ` Larry McVoy
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-22 15:38 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-28 0:13 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-11-21 2:56 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-21 3:15 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-21 3:51 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-21 5:14 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-21 5:20 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-20 0:57 Nemo
2017-11-20 1:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-20 1:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 3:50 ` arnold
2017-11-20 15:23 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-20 16:03 ` ron minnich
2017-11-20 16:31 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-20 19:44 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-20 19:56 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-20 23:43 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-20 23:45 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-20 23:49 ` Ron Natalie
[not found] ` <CAC20D2N=aBhdON1YqHH57ZG-TmC62yWGF4_=HK5Gp2XwdbHkyQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-21 2:41 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-29 22:42 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-29 22:55 ` ron minnich
2017-11-21 1:15 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-21 3:29 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-21 3:40 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-21 3:46 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-21 8:09 ` arnold
2017-11-21 16:49 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-21 4:34 ` Clem cole
2017-11-21 5:42 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-21 12:00 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-21 13:51 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-21 14:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-21 17:06 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-21 17:23 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-21 18:29 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-21 19:10 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-21 15:40 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-21 15:45 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-21 13:24 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-22 1:33 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-11-22 6:35 ` Wesley Parish
2017-11-22 9:38 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-11-22 13:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-22 14:09 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-22 13:51 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-22 14:04 ` Ron Natalie
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