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   Scott Dorsey to mm@dorfdsl.de   
   Re: Inside an IBM z17   
   02 May 25 17:20:38   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Marco Moock   wrote:   
   >On 01.05.2025 22:16 Uhr Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> What exactly are they good for? Nothing, really, except perhaps   
   >> compatibility with ancient legacy code that has long passed its EOL,   
   >> just like the companies that might still be running it.   
   >   
   >Linux can run on IBM z, so you can do anything that Linux can do on   
   >those machines.   
      
   This is actually kind of interesting, because thanks to VM you can have   
   one LPAR that is running your database in a stripped down mainframe   
   operating system, and another LPAR running a web front end in Linux.   
   --scott   
      
      
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