In <[email protected]>, on
11/17/2009
at 10:34 AM, "Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)" <[email protected]> said:
>I have found a few things I could not do:
> Support custom hardware (no slots on the z box)
That's like saying that you can't expand an Intel system because there are
no FICON channels. Both platforms have expansion capabilities, and there's
a thriving market in 3rd party hardware for the zSeries.
> Promote binaries from z to x86.
Or from SPARK to x86. Or from iSeries to x86. That blade cuts both ways.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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