On April 19, William Donzelli wrote:
> > The do indeed classify the S/390 as a mainframe...because, well,
> > that's what it is. :-)
>
> Not any more - they are all "servers". xSeries, iSeries, pSeries, and
> zSeries (the z's being the S/390 followups).
Umm, I have to disagree with you there...the machines in question are
indeed of a mainframe architecture, and some IBMers were calling them
"servers" many years before the zSeries was even an itch in IBM's
pants.
Regardless of what industry buzzwords the marketroids are trying to
take advantage of...those machines implement the S/390 architecture,
which is a mainframe architecture descended from mainframe
architectures.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
Received on Sat Apr 20 2002 - 11:20:28 BST