Re: Re: SixPack mods for Linux users

Dave McGuire <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:54:48 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.vm
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 10/26/10 7:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Well I am looking forward to testing Hercules on an iMac quad-core i7
> with at least 12GB of RAM and an SSD drive early next year (yes, tax
> filings will precipitate the purchase).

   Nice!

> While I do intend to setup a bootable environment on the internal 2TB
> HD I will get, I also intend to setup a bootable SSD enviroment for
> testing such things as Hercules to see how many MIPS can be squezed
> out of it.

   I bet that'll be zippy.

> One has to wonder if the original developers of VM/370 ever
> considering that it might run on an SSD drive one day!?!

   I wonder if anyone had conceived of SSDs by that time.  I know Cray 
X-MP systems had SSDs around 1983, but I don't know (offhand) of any 
SSDs before that time.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL