MIPS and speed

2006-10-25 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
(someone wrote) Realize that MIPS actually means Misleading Indicator of Processor Speed. (snip of clock rate comparison) Clock rate is almost never useful for comparing between different types of processors, or even different versions of similar processors. There are many design tradeoffs

VM, cosoles, and Sparcs

2006-06-29 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
(snip about VM behavior when the console goes away) This behavior is not unique to VM at all -- it's exactly equivalent to hitting L1-A on a Sparc console and leaving it sitting at the ok PROM prompt -- you don't let people near your Sparc consoles if they don't know how to fix what they

Re: /etc/hosts

2005-10-31 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
I found the solution to the problem I had with an Oracle 10g installation. By reading the full install manual for Oracle 10g for Linux x86-64, (several hundred pages, instead of the 20 or so pages for a quick install), I found that it seemed to need an entry in the /etc/hosts file. I

Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 6 Oct 2005 to 7 Oct 2005 (#2005-264)

2005-10-09 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) VSAM does not use hardware keys. It is composed of fixed length Control Intervals which are composed of one or more fixed blocks on DASD. It could be considered FBA compatable. There are a set of possible Control Intervals for a VSAM file. Each

MAC address assignments

2005-03-29 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
Dennis Musselwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From William P. Scully: As you might expect, we at Computer Associates run more than one z/VM node, and z/VM on more than one physical processor. We have embraced using Virtual Switch technology for all the good reasons that Alan Altmark (and

It's official: 1000baseT is gigabit!

2004-10-23 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
I asked on comp.dcon.lans.ethernet, and Rich Seifert, a member of the ethernet standards group since just about the beginning answered. His answer: The very first sentence of clause 40 of IEEE 802.3 states: The 1000BASE-T PHY is one of the Gigabit Ethernet family of high-speed CSMA/CD network

interruptible

2003-12-17 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
Normally, you only need to worry about access due to other CPU's or channels. For an interruptible instruction, you also need to worry about access by other tasks on the same CPU. In the olden days, the interval timer at address 80 could be updated with an MVC instruction. The new value was

Pipelining

2003-12-13 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
The 360/91 and maybe the 6600 were prominent in books on pipelined architectures for many years. The goal of the 360/91 was one instruction per clock cycle, so not superscalar, but still a tough goal with slow core memory. (16 way interleaved, but at over 10 times the cycle time.) A pipelined

VM/370

2003-11-29 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
I think this has been discussed in other lists, but not this one. Because of the 4K key so-called feature, running VM/370 on a P/370 or P/390 in S/370 mode requires that CR0 bit 7 be set. Unfortunately, VM/370 doesn't normally do that. VM/370 changes CR0 in many different places, and all those

Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 17 Nov 2002 to 18 Nov 2002 (#2002-318)

2002-11-18 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
Ulrich Weigand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Rivers wrote: That is, of course one of the issues. The i386 IEEE implementation is not the same as the mainframe, particularly when two variables are loaded into registers and arithmetic is applied. The result will be different.So, one

SVC's used by L/390

2002-10-15 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
There is discussion on another list about the ability to run MVS software under L/390. This would seem to me to be similar to what CMS does when running MVS object or load modules. One requirement is to emulate the system SVC's. Two things are needed: that Linux doesn't use the required SVC's