September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
12h 30m
English
book
Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions
by Michael MacIsaac, Ronald Annuss, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Gombola, Timothy Nunes, Mark Post, Don Stubbs, Egon Terwedow, Craig Vernon
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4 Linux for IBM ^ zSeries and S/390: Distributions
1.1 A brief history
In 1964, IBM announced the S/360 architecture. The “360” in the name referred
to all points on the compass because it was designed to be universal. These
systems have progressed with the brand names S/370, S/390, and now
zSeries,
which has a 64-bit architecture. Improvements in the hardware architecture were
made with each generation; in turn, the operating system and application
software were able to exploit these improvements to increase reliability,
availability and serviceability (RAS), and performance.
In 1969, UNIX, TCP/IP and Linus Torvalds were born. UNIX and TCP/IP grew in
the academic and scientific communities with a spirit of openness and
cooperation. In the ...
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