ibm-main wrote:
I was chatting with my DBAs this morning about the new boxes.
I reckon we could run all the sites in this town on one of the new puppies -
and only a middling sized one at that.
Said the same thing when the z/990 came out ...
and the z/900 ...
Hopefully we (as a city) can stay on the curve - else there'll be another
cartload of people turfed out of jobs.
God only knows what the lower end of the market thinks of this mad scramble
towards kiloMIPS(*).
kiloMIPS ?
GIPS !
BTW: gips in polish means plaster cast for broken leg (white substance,
chemically CaSO4). Colloquially also means deep sh*t.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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