From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 18:55:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA22847 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 18:55:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA22837 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 18:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA01303; Thu, 9 May 1996 11:30:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605090200.LAA01303@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Re[2]: UNIX System To: b.j.smith@ieee.org Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 11:30:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: mcvickhd@audlan.state.in.us, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605082012.QAA26407@sundial.sundial.net> from "Bryan J. Smith, E.I." at May 7, 96 03:17:08 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bryan J. Smith, E.I. stands accused of saying: > > Are you going to access the partitions via NFS on the 9000, or by > other means? *chuckle*. "Partition" is a VM term; you can run several operating systems on a VM system at the same time - in this case, they're talking about bringing AIX up in a partition. > -- BITMAN EI > > > > Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 13:37:34 -0500 > > From: mcvickhd@audlan.state.in.us (HUGH MCVICKER) > > Subject: Re[2]: UNIX System > > To: "Bryan J. Smith; E.I." > > > > > Thank you for the prompt response to my question about FreeBSD being > > UNIX. We have an IBM ES9000 mainframe that has the capability to > > bring up a UNIX partition. I'm looking for a UNIX system to place on > > the PCs of my application programmers so that they can gain some > > experience and education with UNIX before we bring up the partition. > > Thanks for your input. Hmm. AIX is a bit weird, so you may have some secondary transition problems, but FreeBSD is definitely a good choice for this. There are probably some people on the -questions list with "some" IBM mainframe experience that may be able to help your people adjust. Definitely, feel free to point your people at the list as a reference. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[