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Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture

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On 2012-02-02 19:36:16 +0000, Nomen Nescio said:

>> 
>> got only about 75 times. But we've learned a lot since then. Remember,
>> the z196 may be much faster than a 360/65, but so is an iPhone. Heck,
>> the /screen/ of an iPhone, all by itself, is a bigger, faster computer
>> than a 360/65, and a single USB 2.0 port can outperform all the
>> channels of a maxed-out 65 put together.
> 
> Maybe on paper but not in reality. I have seen numerous companies run *all*
> their workload (online and nightly reporting) on a 370 but I haven't seen
> anybody run a business on an iPhone or a USB 2.0 port ;-)

Yes, and I've seen companies run all their business on a 1401. And I've 
worked for a company that, only a few years before, had run all their 
business on a 402.

-- 
John W Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is 
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. 
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
  -- C. S. Lewis.  "An Experiment in Criticism"

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          Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-02-02 20:36 +0100
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