IBM Gets AS/400 Running On PlayStation 38
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.
Is this (Score:1)
Re:Is this (Score:2)
Re:Is this (Score:1)
Re:Is this (Score:4, Informative)
The reporter was a console-guy, so he can be forgiven. What IBM has done is get the OS/400 Operating System ported.
In other news (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps a real use. (Score:3, Interesting)
Perhaps now the whackjobs of the world will have a reason to stockpile consoles other than needing their fix of Final Fantasy.
Just a thought...
wait... (Score:5, Funny)
ibm is supposed to be full of boring suits. sun is supposed to have the hackers. it was all so much simpler back in 1993, what went wrong?
Re:wait... (Score:2, Insightful)
The boring suits have decided to commercialize on 'the hackers' and therefore have adopted sort of a 'cool' sheen. The hackers at Sun are getting ever closer to retirement, plus they don't take software that runs on unreliable cheap PeeCee hardware** very seriously. Plus, Linux threatens a hell of a lot of cool technology in Sun's Solaris flagship, Linux is still sort of an enhanced MS_DOS compared to Solaris.
(** This is a point worth considering. I, personally have been getting m
Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Woohoo! (Score:1)
Big deal (Score:4, Funny)
How about PS2 on PS2? (Score:4, Funny)
The beginning... (Score:5, Funny)
"...sir? No, it's just me and Bob here, a sort of pet project we like to work on every now and...you...you what?...Sir, that's...you're giving us how many people to work on this?"
The Register link (Score:3, Informative)
Why this project exists (Score:5, Funny)
Conversation with IBM sales (Score:4, Funny)
IBM: Yes, sir. What server are you looking at to run it? We have a great deal on our iSeries 890 midrange systems, starting at about $350,000.
Customer: Oh, no thanks. I just picked up a Playstation at a yard sale for 20 bucks.
Are some big companies gearing up to take on MS (Score:4, Insightful)
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?
Re:Are some big companies gearing up to take on MS (Score:1)
Microsoft is trying to scale up to the kind of installation that an AS/400 mini/mainframe operates in, but they're really reaching to attain that.
Really, the whole computing industry isn't dominated by Microsoft. Certain segments are, to be certain. Definitely not the one that AS/400 is part of.
Re:Are some big companies gearing up to take on MS (Score:2)
Re:Linux Kit Is Good For Something! (Score:1)
Adding GAIM to the mix took a few more minutes.
I think my real point was that I feel that my time spent playing around with my Linux kit was more or less a waste of time and money.
Why not GameCube? (Score:2)
No more Interruptions! (Score:1)
IBM's secret plan to take over the world. (Score:3, Interesting)
Maybe the idea here is that IBM is working on a robust OS and networking system and maybe the hardware for use in future Sony platforms (PS3, anyone?) and has done this as a demonstration of what they can do. If they can make it work with the PSOne, they can make it work with anything.
It's kind of karmic, the PS3 also being the PS/3 and all.
Are we sure it's not a PS/2? (Score:1)
The PS/2 Model 80 was a reasonably powerful system in it's time.
The whole irony in this discussion is that some of us, probably those who don't buy retail console game toys, have had a problem with confusing PS2 as standing for the old IBM PS/2 hardware line. Now even IBM themselves are adding to the confusion.
Its OS/400 (Score:2)
The AS/400 refers to either the hardware or the whole architecture of hardware+software.
Now if IBM releases this software and supports it making it commercially viable, companies with old ERP systems will have to hire younger employees to run their application servers on PS2. They will have a hard time keeping them away from the machines after work. The uptimes will always be less than 12 hours.
In the name of God, why? (Score:3, Funny)
PLYGM *PLYR(PLYR1) *GM(MGS3)
(It's been a while, my 'syntax' could be wrong)
What really scares me is *if* IBM decided to let people play around with this OS/400, and the general geek public started playing around with it, we'd have a whole new perversion of the english language, a million times worse than l337 speak.
Example:
LTGMR1: HY, HW R Y DNG?
CLGY: NT T BD, Y?
LTGMR1: I JST GT LTMA MCM TDY, T KCKS SS
Do you have any idea of what they're saying? Neither will you!
Re:In the name of God, why? (Score:1)
Wow (Score:2)
Commands for those not "in the know" (Score:1)
WRKSYSSTS - up, up, up, circle, down
WRKMBRPDM - left, down, right, up
30 extra lives - up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B*, A*, start.
* - please substitute playstation equivalent for B and A.
Not /.ed (Score:1)
I know what it is! Someone got an old piece of hardware to run some other OS and no one posted a link! We can't slashdot the playstation without a link!
Damn i'm bored.....
Why this is interesting (Score:2)
The fact that they have ported OS/400 to POWER and now to MIPS R3000 (It's running on the PSOne [theregister.co.uk] and no
very last post, i suck (Score:1)