29 Mar
2012
29 Mar
'12
1:10 p.m.
tor 2012-03-29 klockan 08:49 -0400 skrev Dave McGuire:
On 03/29/2012 08:40 AM, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
:-(
Except that serie of 390 machine is black and the RISC:based AS/400 also
is black, except for that not much. as long as we doesn't start to
discuss how IBM percepted the future for their mainframes.
OS/400 was how IBM wanted to build a new mainframe operative.
This
is an IBM Multiprise 3000, which made its debut in, I think,
2000 or so. It's basically an S/390 G5 (no connection to the PowerPC
processor of the same name) with a scaled-down I/O subsystem. It can be
either uniprocessor or dual. They're really nice machines, very compact
for a real mainframe, and quite fast as long as you don't do extremely
heavy I/O...basically it's got the same I/O as the rest of the computing
world, which is wimpy and puny when compared to real mainframes. These
machines are well-suited for S/390 software development for this reason.
They're popping up everywhere nowadays due to the IBM mainframe world
having gone 64-bit several years ago, and the subsequent de-supporting
of the 31-bit stuff. (no I didn't mean "32" ;))
'Everywhere' doesn't include (as far as i can say) Sweden, but the
freight from CO for this would be... I would be very happy for a AS/400 or their black
descendant.
You know this machine has nothing at all to do with AS/400s, right?
(just checking)
-Dave