Last updated on:
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Software
- Linux/390 Distributions
- Linux/390 Patches
- Hercules - An S/390 Hardware Emulator
Information
- Large numbers of links
- Linux/390 HOWTOs
- IBM's Linux/390 pages
- Distribution Contents
- IBM VM and Linux Resources
- Linux man pages
- Notes & Observations
- Top 10 reasons to run Linux on VM
- Linux/390 at Princeton University
- i/370 Port, aka Bigfoot
- linuxvm.org Archives
Community
- Community Members
- Linux-390 Listserv
- Linux/390 Presentations
- Linux/390 Subscribers
- Linux/390 Survey Results
News
Fun
Credits
My first revenue producing activity was as a contract programmer, writing FORTRAN programs for an IBM 709. I went on from there to be an operator, maintenance programmer, systems programmer, applications programmer, keypunch supervisor, and teacher and instructor. Mostly on 14xx, 360/370/390 hardware and some casual contact with Honeywell, Microdata, HP, Sun and various other hardware.
I am a VM Systems Programmer and bigot, but since I couldn't afford a VM system for home use I had to accept that a PC could possibly do something useful. Then I grew to greatly dislike anything with "Microsoft" attached to it.
I still have my first PC. A Packard Bell 386SX that I bought at COSTCO, a discount warehouse. (PB did make good machines in the beginning!)
When Linux came along I got a little excited. When it was ported to S/390 I became ecstatic! I have it installed under VM at work and on two PCs at home. My home project is becoming "MS free" and my work project is server consolidation, unofficialy. Right now we are using Linux/390 for ftp of customer data, and for email store and forward of status reports generated on VSE by various batch jobs.