Is there no end - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Dec 2001

On December 14, Pat Finnegan wrote:
...
  I am pretty sure it runs on some IBM PPC proc... At
least that's what I
 gathered when IBM sent some guy to give what amounted to a sales pitch to
 our LUG.  Could be wrong, but I dont really think so. BTW I mean MODERN
 eg. zSeries, not old. 
  Umm, not as far as I'm aware, no.  The S/390 is a mainframe
architecture, not a large microprocessor-based system.  While I have a
lot of respect for PPC processors, they don't have quite *that* much
horsepower.

...
  Anyways, IBM did have their S/390 on a card that
 they sold with their P/390 'developer's systems' in the early 90s.  I'd
 imagine those used a microprocessor... 
  I have one in front of me.  It's not a PPC.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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