15 Dec
2001
15 Dec
'01
1:55 a.m.
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Pat Finnegan wrote:
Let me put it another way... I own three S/390's, I spend a considerable
amount of time with my hands in them. The 10-Processor G5 S/390 is rated
to a similar speed as a 32-processor POWER4-based RS/6000. In fact, they
no longer even make PowerPC based RS/6000's. Basically the slowest
processor used in RS/6000 now is the POWER3-II.
OK, Let me rephrase:
The PR guy that IBM sent out to our LUG meeting was a moron.
-- Pat
S/390
does NOT run on microprocessors of any kind, let alone one as slow
as PPC.
Furthurmore, I remember the speed they quoted (less than a year ago) of
about 1-2 Gigaflops per "Refrigerator" (as the IBM guy put it). That
would fall in line nicely with a multi-proc PPC system.