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:ComputerWorld (Denmark): Linux on IBM S/390 mainframe
ComputerWorld (Denmark): Linux on IBM S/390 mainframe
Oct 12, 1999, 01 :52 UTC (20 Talkback[s]) (19754 reads)

(Other stories by J.O.S. Svendsen)

[ Linux Today reader Hans Schou writes: ]

"Friday 8 october 1999 there was a story in the Danish Computerworld about IBM had ported Linux to the S/390 mainframe.

For some people this would not be amazing, as there was a posting to the Linux Kernel list back in march 1999, where a guy asked about DMA buffers and address space. The posting came from 3dlabs.com and the rumor began that IBM was porting Linux to mainframe.

I called IBM today and they confirmed that the development was going on, but they did not had any press releases. While I had the guy on the phone I asked to get a speaker for our local LUG. That was not impossible but they did not have anyone in Europe who could do the speach, so they had to "fly 'em in".

The story tells a lot about how excited IBM are about Linux. The I/O-subsystems should come in a faster and more simple design and one of the products which will come first is a Gigabit LAN controler. S/390 will come in a more light version which should be a real UNIX-killer. Linux and OS/390 would run on the same time on the micro-kernel architecture. According to IBM Linux on S/390 will the fastest Linux ever.

S390-Linux is a clean Linux distribution.

Linus Torvalds has been contacted and is positive about the project and would discuss the micro-kernel model on the developer list."

The article in Danish may be found here.

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Linux for S/390 has been the topic of di ...   Not Exactly News   
Les Bell
Oct 12, 1999, 02:40:48
 
I've been working in JCL on OS/390,  ...   Now This is Very Curious..   
Matthew C. Tedder
Oct 12, 1999, 02:42:05
 
From what I understand from the article  ...   Like VMware... (?)   
Martin Vermeer
Oct 12, 1999, 07:23:19
 
VM (390) is a higher-level OS that lets  ...   Like VM(!) (390 explanation)   
Chris Priest
Oct 12, 1999, 11:08:51
 
The Linux operating system is on its way ...   A translation   
Just me
Oct 12, 1999, 13:52:40
 
I've been working on smaller boxes f ...   I love this, being a long-ago mainframe guy   
dinotrac
Oct 12, 1999, 13:58:46
 
There is already a full Unix system runn ...   OS/390 is already Unix-branded   
John Sowa
Oct 12, 1999, 22:51:26
 
As someone highly interested in the enti ...   Linux/390   
Wesley Parish
Oct 13, 1999, 01:37:13
 
maybe you should point that out to Micro ...   go for it wesley   
Dave Stevens
Oct 13, 1999, 02:21:54
 
Shoof habibi,IBM is putting Linux on the ...   Wallahee !!!   
Avtar Taggar
Oct 13, 1999, 15:03:39
 
As someone who's worked in both main ...   Comments on the "literal" translation of the Danis   
David Boyes
Oct 13, 1999, 18:17:23
 
A couple additional comments:

There are ...   Additional comments.   
David Boyes
Oct 13, 1999, 19:19:28
 
David Boyes wrote:>>It requires architec ...   S390 architectural changes for Linux   
Terrence W. Zellers
Oct 14, 1999, 00:00:23
 
Terrence, While it's true that the S ...   Re: S390 architectural changes for Linux   
David Boyes
Oct 14, 1999, 01:45:23
 
This must be nearly the slowest Linux ev ...   52.33 BogoMIPS?!   
Chris Priest
Oct 14, 1999, 10:58:47
 
Keep in mind that this code is still und ...   Re: 52.33 BogoMIPS?!   
David Boyes
Oct 14, 1999, 15:56:31
 
You know about the value of BogoMips? It ...   Re: 52.33 BogoMIPS?!   
Holger Smolinski
Oct 14, 1999, 16:05:14
 
Yes, indeed on the BogoMIPS number (that ...   Re: Re: 52.33 BogoMIPS?!   
David Boyes
Oct 15, 1999, 14:40:10
 
You can download the port at http://lina ...   You can download the code now ...   
Linas Vepstas
Oct 18, 1999, 06:11:12
 
hi, i want any information about linux r ...   linux router on z/VM configuration   
jassim alhassan
Nov 9, 2003, 12:28:19
 
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