RE: From the Comdex Rumor Department...

My assumption was that it would be the IPCS.
Weren't we queried a few months ago about any interest
in Linux on the IPCS ? (I believe by John Carr.)
And the response was fairly positive.
Combine that with the increasing coverage about
Linux making inroads into "corporate systems" and I've
been expecting to see an IPCS/Linux announcement.

Reports that Linux is being ported to the "AS/400
architecture" I think can be taken the same way that
reports about now being able to "run NT on the 400"
should be taken.

 - steve cotes
 - cotess@data-io.com


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> From:         bdietz@3x.com[SMTP:bdietz@3x.com]
> Sent:         Friday, November 20, 1998 12:45 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
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> We are assuming that the port is to the native hardware.  What if they
> are
> talking about the IPCS.  I would
> think that would be a more natural fit.
> 
> Bryan Dietz
> 3X Corp.
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> "Roger Pence" <rp@rogerpence.com> on 11/20/98 03:42:37 PM
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> >Actually, if you port Linux over to the 400's hardware, you get Linux
> >running on a PowerPC chip... which already exists.
> Doesn't that make Linux on the AS/400 the answer to the question no
> one
> asked? Who would want to pay premium AS/400 memory and DASD prices
> (which
> are certainly more competitive that ever, but still not the commodity
> box
> market) to run as a Linux server? what does it get you? That a nicely
> configured Dell PowerEdge doesn't?
> And, for that matter, doesn't Apache stand on the same ground? Where
> does
> Apache fit as an AS/400 Web server?
> Don't read a bigoted tone one way or another here, I'm really trying
> to
> figure this stuff out.
> rp
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