Re: LPARS

From: John Taylor <john.taylor@telusplanet.net>
> Could the answer to your question lie in the following excerpt from the
same
> article:
>
> "Release migration. Partitions may be used to move an operating system or
> application software to updated versions. The new software can be tested in
> isolation before being deployed in a production environment. (This is
> subject to the limitation that a release may not be supported on particular
> hardware)."
>
> Is V3R7 currently supported on the class of hardware that provides LPAR?
> Maintaining support for older OS releases would be quite costly I think.
> Everytime that they introduced a new hardware component they'd have to go
> back and PTF each OS version.

What has hardware to do with any of this? It is not hardware that
provides LPARS but software. Even if new instructions were added
to the PowerPC to support LPAR, V3R7 wouldn't use any of these
and wouldn't know the difference.



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