On Friday,  6 April 2001 at 22:11:36 +0200, wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net wrote:
>> 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
>
> this isn't more useful than for testing IMHO.
>
> why run 2 unix tasks while you can run one unix and needed amount of
> processes under it

They run multiple Linux tasks in parallel because, they say, Linux
doesn't scale well.

Greg
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