> On Jan 24, 2018, at 10:32 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> IBM already has very capable hardware available. They probably already >> have a nice z emulator that runs on power hardware, just not the software >> licensing in order to run z/OS on it. >> > > Most likely, given that they have a zArch emulator which run on X86. > > >> >> An IBM Power8 S824 machine, 4u in height, 24 3.5gh cores, 2T memory, >> 7 PCIe card slots could run a modest sized z/OS installation indeed. >> > > I would almost bet that they won't however because it would probably eat > into their true z hardware sales. Especially if you make that machine an > IBMi capable one. It could then run AIX, Linux, IBM i, and IBM z software > all on the same machine under PowerVM. All that would be missing > (wonderfully by me) would be Windows. > John:
LONG LONG time ago 1990’s type .. I had heard that IBM actually had on that worked. I know zero details. This was was from a reliable IBM source. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
