Re: AS/400 keeps reinventing itself

["Dennis Lovelady" <dlovelady@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Brad:

I run Winblows 2000 and XP in a partition of a Linux system by means of
VMWare (a great tool, by the way).

The thing that makes VMWare great, is that it's not an emulator.  You
install regular Winblows (95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP) from the regular
distribution disk and then it can be opened as a window within your X
session.  I've noticed no degredation on my P3-800 laptop system, and found
no pitfalls (at least none that aren't built into the guest OS).

But, because it's a normal install from a normal distribution disk, it
means that you can't run it on any new platforms.  So, this is a long way
of saying that at least that tool won't allow Win* to run on your AS/400 in
a Linux partition.

HTH
Dennis





"Brad Jensen" <brad@elstore.com>@midrange.com on 11/15/2001 09:18:56 PM

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Subject:  Re: AS/400 keeps reinventing itself



> > only server in the industry to allow customers to run four
> > different
> > operating systems simultaneously: OS/400 (the native operating
> > system
> > of the AS/400); Unix; Windows NT or Windows 2000; and Linux.
IBM
> > also
>
> Hollow and false, you must install a different processor (and a
slow one at
> that) to run the NT or W2K.


I keep hearing about Linux having the ability to run copies of
Windows in a partition. I assume that is only on INTEL
Processors...

has anybody done that? Will it run on the AS/400 Linux?