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From: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX
Message-ID: <648@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 00:32:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 00:32:52 1987
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Reply-To: dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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Re: Unix for IBM mainframes.



You might want to check out IX/370, a Unix port for the System/370 architecture
that runs very nicely as both a standalone system or a dial-in virtual
machine under VM/SP. Believe it or not, IBM did a fairly good job -- it can
even use 3270 style terminals in a reasonable fashion. Admittedly, it is slow,
but translating a lot of this stuff second-level makes anything slow.

Disclaimer: I've installed IX/370 once. It's a bitch to install, but now that it's
up, it seems to be a resonable system. It's as good as HP-UX ever was....



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David Boyes                   ARPA: 556%OREGON1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Systems Division              BITNET: 556@OREGON1
University of Oregon Computing Center   UUCP: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP