Comment Better question is "why not"... (Score 1) 592
I had a 6220 back in the day and ran LinuxPPC on it for many years. I got used to Linux. Since OS X came about the need for Linux isn't as much but I still keep it in VMWare.
Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.