Is there no end

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Sat Dec 15 01:55:45 2001

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:

> 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.

OK, Let me rephrase:

The PR guy that IBM sent out to our LUG meeting was a moron.

-- Pat
Received on Sat Dec 15 2001 - 01:55:45 GMT