[TUHS] UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370

Adam Thornton athornton at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 01:35:28 AEST 2022


On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 8:29 AM Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 20, 2022, Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I mean, just a Unix, without all the cruft of a modern Linux, but which
>> can actually take advantage of the resources of a modern machine.  I don't
>> care about a desktop, or even a graphical environment, I don't care about
>> all the strange syscalls that are there to support particular databases, I
>> don't care much about being a virtualization host.
>
>
> But then...what would the purpose of such a system? ...
> It appears to me there is really no need for such a modern mini-Unix
> system outside of hard core O/S theorists community.
>
>
I'm not asking for a _practical_ Christmas gift, and certainly not one that
will help me at work.  As you say: at work I've got Kubernetes.  I think it
would be aesthetically pleasing and fun to use.  Need has nothing to do
with it.

Adam
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