more talking to the press.

Now, that's the modern incarnation of a REAL(tm) Computer. Nop, the zSeries is todays version of a classic /370. The only real differnence to its predecessor (ES9000) is a somewhat weired 64 Bit mode - I have still no Idea what it is good for. Shure, the address extension from 24 to 31 Bit was quite helpful (8 MB user address space became quite tight when you already need 3 for your programm and need more speed due caching for 3000 concurent users), but above that, I see no real need. We got all bells and whistles in our data base engine, but still don't use more than a half a gig of mem. And even there the address extension of earlier architectures (swaping address spaces in and out of a task - aka banking:) was more than enough.

I think, the extension was more a marketing thing than anything else.