Unix on IBM Mainframes & Clones

[Jonathan Leech]

In article <897 at kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen at steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen) writes:
> We have been running IX/370 for some time. The following is my personal
>...
> On the good side: really truely FAST!! The C compiler must work pretty
> well, most programs run about 10x a VAX 11/780. This is really nice if
> you are working with nroff and a large document. The performance is,
> again, about 10x a VAX.

    On what machine? 10x 780 would be most impressive on a 4341 but dismal
on a 3090.

> Overall this is a very fast system, but not particularly compatible
> with most existing releases. Since a lot of the system stuff has
> pathnames starting with 'uts', I wonder about the source of this
> version. Perhaps someone running a real UTS system can tell us. There
> is also a SysV from AT&T now, but I don't know any details.

    UTS is Amdahl's System V port for 370 architectures. It runs both
native and as a guest under VM. Since I have an obvious bias I won't
say any more (but will be happy to answer questions via private mail).

    -- Jon Leech (...seismo!amdahl!jon)
    UTS Products / Amdahl Corporation
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