5 Sep
2007
5 Sep
'07
10:10 p.m.
On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I was going to say something to that effect. *sigh*
I believe MVS is selling/running on a greater number of copies now
than it ever has in the past.
Indeed, I've read that as well.
I'm not aware of much that modern PPC processers
can't do that POWER
can, other than things intended for the support of legacy IBM OSs
such
as OS/400 or zOS.
z/OS is a "legacy" OS? Sure doesn't look that
way to me.
Am I just blind today or something? Also, in other messages in this thread, people have
been saying
stuff to the effect that pSeries and zSeries aren't architecturally
all that different anymore. Anyone who says that hasn't used
zSeries hardware. That would be like saying that the Tandem NonStop
S is similar to the SGI Indigo^2 because they're both based on MIPS
R4400. Or that the Cray T3E is similar to the Compaq Alphastation
1200 because they're both based on Alpha EV56. Hogwash.
"Hogwash" is definitely a good way to put it. :-)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007