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- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:49:14 EDT
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- From: "John A. Pershing Jr." <PERSHNG@YKTVMH.BITNET>
- Subject: VM on RS/6000
- Comments: cc: JEISZNER@INDYCMS.BITNET, VMESA-L@UAFSYSB.BITNET
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- In-Reply-To: Posting dated Mon, 12 Oct 1992 08:54:55 EST
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- I couldn't comment on any of IBM's future plans (or lack thereof), even
- if I knew them.
-
- However, suffice it to say that VM is *only* supported on System/370
- and System/390 architectures. What you saw at SHARE is a S/370-on-a-
- card that happens to plug into a MicroChannel, and which uses the PS/2
- (running special code) as an I/O processor. So, you didn't really see
- VM running on a PS/2; what you saw was VM running on a 370 which
- happened to be housed inside of a PS/2. A subtle but important
- distinction.
-
- John Pershing pershng @ watson.ibm.com
- IBM Research, Yorktown Heights PERSHNG at YKTVMH.BITNET
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