Reply to post: Re: So is it running z/OS or Linux or both?

Big Blue's biggest mainframe yet is the size of a fridge

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Re: So is it running z/OS or Linux or both?

"Read up on Type 1 hypervisors. There does not have to be a host OS, at least not as I think you understand them."

Well presumably something has to control the physical hardware or nothing would be able to be loaded from disk. I'd call that the OS or at least the kernel.

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