IBM R390 IPL woes... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jan 2002

On January 16, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
...
  And you would have to deal with the lack of I/O and
Memory bandwidth of a
 PC.  A P/390 will *stomp* a PC running Hercules for most of the popular
 mainframe applications (eg. DB2, CICS, COBOL, etc.). 
  What he said. :)

...
  Or you could get yourself a PCI-based RS/6000 and not
have to deal with
 any of the PC bullshit. 
  That's what I'd really like to do, but I can't afford one right
now... :-(

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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