Re: LPARS (was NT vs. AS/400)

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

LPAR is indigenous to V4R4 the start of LPAR support on the
400. Hdwe wise  the 6xx series.
At 11:52 AM 06/03/2001 -0500, Leif Svalgaard wrote:
> From: John Taylor
> <john.taylor@telusplanet.net>
> > For the benefit of anyone else who may not be intimately familiar
> with the
> > technology behind LPAR, there is a great article here:
> >
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/beyondtech/lpar.htm#abstract
>
> Just re-read the article. It says in there:
> "Previous releases are not supported in a logical
> partition".
> Now that is strange. If the LPAR can run Linux why not V4R1?
> or V3R7? for that matter.
>
> What would be the technical reason for this restriction?
> Lifting it would be great for all those shops that stay on
> older releases for whatever reasons. Also great for 
> software developers for testing and ensuring backwards
> compatibility.
>
>
>
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