Re: Cheaper Servers?

["Buck" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Lang wrote (regarding OS/400 on a laptop):

> Nope.  Doubt it would work.  Part of AS/400 (and
> Mac for that point too) robustness is the fact of a
> limited set of hardware to support.
>
> If you have IBM developing OS/400 for Intel
> AND the millions of hardware possible, it will tank.

It would be on Power PC hardware, not Intel and a laptop is quite a
restricted hardware environment.  The point (which I badly made) is that
making OS/400 widely available to university students (let it LPAR Linux too
whilst I'm dreaming!) will make them more familiar and when they graduate
they will be less likely to slam the door in the face of an iSeries BP when
they propose an iSeries solution.

This isn't really germane to the 'cheaper servers' thread, but I thought it
useful to report that I had asked a similar question of Dr Soltis.
  --buck