Is there no end

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Fri Dec 14 23:09:36 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
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
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