In some email I received from Brian Chase, sie wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> > In some email I received from Brian Chase, sie wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Sort of like Linux has with their IBM mainframe port.
> >
> > I hope you are not referring to the port that runs on the
> > S/390(?) that IBM sell to customers...
> 
> Yeah, that's the port I'm talking about.  The one that IBM "offer" to
> customers.  It is a free download and included in the Linux kernel
> source.  IBM do sell solutions based on it.
> 
> So other than that, I guess I don't understand your vague implications
> here.  I don't see that particular port as being any worse than other
> Linux ports ;-)

The assertion being made was that the Linux port to the IBM mainframe
was just a toy thing, not to be taken seriously.