Re: Communications Controller for Linux on Z/Series

On 6/14/05, j751pfk <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a pdf on this product downloadable from;
> http://www.willdata.com/v2/downloads/Network_Guide_0605/index.htm
> 
> It is a 3745 emulator that runs under Linux/390 in an LPAR or VM and
> it is marketed by IBM to replace the 3745 which was withdrawn from
> marketing some years ago.
> 
> Could one run this under Linux under Hercules or would the OSA Licensed
> Code be a problem? Technically or politically? It seems to me that one
> could turn an old PC into a passable 3745 fairly easily and cheaply.

I think the bigger problem is that the whole thing is a licensed IBM
product, mostly OCO, *and* it seems to require installation of an NCP
load module, which is itself licensed code.

None of this is free (as in speech or beer).

Tony H.


 
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