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Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture

From swestin@earthlink.nospam.net
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Subject Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture
Date 2012-01-17 12:52 -0500
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John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> writes:

> On 2012-01-16 08:37:39 +0000, David Kanter said:
>
>> As a group dedicated to mainframe assembly, hopefully the topic of
>> IBM's zArchitecture requires no introduction.
>>
>> I recently wrote an article on IBM’s z196, which is the first
>> mainframe with an out-of-order CMOS microprocessor, and also the first
>> with an integrated L3 cache. These two innovations are largely
>> responsible for a 30-40% improvement in performance over the previous
>> generation z10.
>>
>> http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT010312153140
>>
>> Hopefully you all find this an interesting and enjoyable read.
>
> Early mainframes had bipolar chips, forsooth? Pardon me while I crawl
> to my grave.

No, the *real* ones were ECL...

-- 
Stephen H. Westin
Software Engineer
Central New York

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Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture David Kanter <dkanter@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 00:37 -0800
  Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-16 12:35 -0500
    Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture swestin@earthlink.nospam.net - 2012-01-17 12:52 -0500
      Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2012-01-18 04:05 +0000
        Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture swestin@earthlink.nospam.net - 2012-01-18 09:34 -0500
  Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-18 11:31 -0500
  Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2012-02-01 10:59 -0800
    Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-01 15:15 -0500
      Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2012-02-02 07:43 -0800
        Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-02 11:45 -0500
          Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-02-02 20:36 +0100
            Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-02 17:47 -0500
              Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-02-03 09:53 +0100
                Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-03 11:46 -0500
                Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-04 16:42 -0500
                Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2012-02-04 14:40 -0800
                Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-07 15:07 -0500
                Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-02-04 22:15 +0100
              Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2012-02-02 18:59 -0800
              Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2012-02-02 19:03 -0800
            Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture Waldek Hebisch <hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl> - 2012-02-05 17:35 +0000
              Re: Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-05 13:45 -0500

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