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Re: OT: Main Frame on Ebay.com



On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:52:15PM +0000, alex khalil wrote:

> >this guy is sell S390 MF computer, and many other part.
> >he is willing to send this to israel, and someone has already reserved it
> >for 1000$.
[...] 
>   If you have to choose between paying the electricity bill for your
> air conditionner or for the S/390 which will win?

If anybody really is interested, let it be known that IBM sell a
beast they call P-390, which is basically a (pretty large) PC running
OS/2, with a CMOS card running VM and all the necessary stuff to
make it a mainframe emulator. The OS/2 host is really used mostly
just as a console.

They sell it for around $20k. (Now that I think of it, this offer
is probably for a P-390, not an S/390. Isn't it? Otherwise the
prices really don't make sense.)

ObLameBackOnTopicNotReallyButAlmost:

Perl runs on IBM mainframes.

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