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.
In other news (Score:4, Funny)
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?
Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
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?"
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.
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!