Is there no end

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Sat Dec 15 01:06:22 2001

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Pat Finnegan wrote:

> > S/390 does NOT run on microprocessors of any kind, let alone one as slow
> > as PPC.
>
> Furthurmore, I remember the speed they quoted (less than a year ago) of
> about 1-2 Gigaflops per "Refrigerator" (as the IBM guy put it). That
> would fall in line nicely with a multi-proc PPC system.

Let me put it another way... I own three S/390's, I spend a considerable
amount of time with my hands in them. The 10-Processor G5 S/390 is rated
to a similar speed as a 32-processor POWER4-based RS/6000. In fact, they
no longer even make PowerPC based RS/6000's. Basically the slowest
processor used in RS/6000 now is the POWER3-II.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sat Dec 15 2001 - 01:06:22 GMT