On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:51:55PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> 
> I know of companies who have bought (probably used) S/390 machines
> for running linux on them (they have no interest in OS/390), they say
> the hardware is ultra stable and reliable and they obviously can run
> several instances of the operating system in the 390's virtual machine
> architecture.  I've heard that AIX can be run on them also but some
> people prefer to go with the linux hype obviously.

It's not just the `hype'.  AIX is a baroque pile of wombat barf.  (And
this is from someone who used AIX for years.)  Also, AIX/370 is really
not at all the same as RS/6000 AIX (or at least it wasn't when I last
used it).