16 Dec
2010
16 Dec
'10
2:30 p.m.
On 12/16/10 4:15 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
If your book is an IBM publication, it shows only that
IBM was
consistent in its inconsistency.
It'd be interesting if someone could come up with a corporate
directive that specifies what the "official" convention was.
*That's* not gonna happen...
IBM's different hardware groups might as well be different companies,
as far as technical conventions are concerned.
Consider this: although "iSeries" and "pSeries" hardware became the
same physical platform when POWER5 was introduced, but the FRU codes for
adapters and accessories weren't merged until last year. A gigabit
ethernet adapter for an i5 system, for example, was a different product
code - at 2-4x the price - as the IDENTICAL PCI card for p5.
Doc Shipley