20 Apr
2002
20 Apr
'02
11:35 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
Umm, I have to disagree with you there...the machines in question are
indeed of a mainframe architecture, and some IBMers were calling them
"servers" many years before the zSeries was even an itch in IBM's
pants.
That's a mighty big itch.
The do indeed classify the S/390 as a
mainframe...because, well,
that's what it is. :-)
Not any more - they are all "servers". xSeries, iSeries, pSeries, and
zSeries (the z's being the S/390 followups). Regardless of what industry buzzwords the
marketroids are trying to
take advantage of...those machines implement the S/390 architecture,
which is a mainframe architecture descended from mainframe
architectures.
Actually, those machines don't implement ESA/390. They implement z/Arch.
But z/Arch definitely evolved from ESA/390 R4.
Peace... Sridhar