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47 pointsmrmagooey9y ago6 comments

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Debian and other distros also support these architectures.

cm39y ago

But when can we get a POWER workstation for a reasonable price?

Talos¹ is a nice POWER workstation that is highly priced but still reasonable (not _that_ bad for a workstation). Currently they're getting close to enough interest for the initial production run.

¹ https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php

x5n19y ago

heh. good one. i wonder when IBM will open source Z/os so I can run it on an emulator to mess around with cobol.

tolle9y ago

COBOL works fine on other operating systems as well. JCL, on the other hand, is only available on z/OS and it's just as important to know.

ryao9y ago

I have been told that ZFS works here. :)

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