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IBM Gets AS/400 Running On PlayStation

Posted by simoniker on from the what-in-the-world? dept.

TomPee writes "Hackers may have oiled the rails for Linux fans eager to run their favourite Penguin-fronted operating system on Xbox, but that's nothing compared to IBM's latest in-house project, according to Gamesindustry.biz: running the AS/400 enterprise operating system on a humble PlayStation. Now I'm only wondering: what will be the practical use of this ?" According to another account from News.com.au, which non-specifically mentions 'PlayStation', it may be that IBM are working on the PS2, and not the PSOne, as the newer article claims.

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  1. Are some big companies gearing up to take on MS by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 3, Insightful
    • IBM supports linux, a direct competitor to MS on low-end servers and maybe in the future on the desktop
    • Sony releases a linux version for the PS2
    • All the big japanese electronics firms work together on a linux project
    • IBM puts their mainframe software, a very stready earner on PS.
    • IBM and sony work together on PS3
    • IBM delivers the chips for apple
    • Apple uses BSD
    • ?????? Of course all of this doesn't have to mean a thing, but if you want you can read into this a serious contented to the Wintel domination.

      A living room systeem designed by Sony, on IBM hardware with the solidity of AS/400 (mainframes did things in reliabilty and security we can only dream of in our so called modern OSes) and the openess of linux. Perhaps even taken a few UI lessons from Apple? I would buy one that is for sure.

      Oh well a guy can dream can't he?

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