The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[email protected] (Edward Jaffe) writes: > In his System z keynote address at SHARE in Austin, Karl Freund > described a hypothetical future machine in which non-z processor > "blades", mounted within the System z frame, would be available as > "accelerators" to applications running on the traditional System z > processors. I have several papers that I wrote on the proposal from early 1985 ... long-winded old post with reference: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#17 mainframe and microprocessor other posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#15 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#19 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#20 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#32 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
