"R.S." wrote: > Edward Jaffe pisze: > [...] > > People with PC-only experience are always astonished when I tell them > > about modern mainframe provisioning capabilities. They always assume > > when your hard drive fills up you need a new one or when your CPU is too > > slow you need a new one. What we do seems like magic to them. > > Yes, mainframe capabilities are excellent in this area. From the other > hand they solve problems which exist only in mainframe world: CPU power > adjustment. CPU shortage is bad thing on any platform, but mainframe is > the only one where too much MIPS is not good. Why to downgrade a PC? > The same apply to "specialty" processors.
That is not completely true. Some amount of Unix and even Windows enterprise software (and not from IBM) is licensed by the capacity on the machine. > > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > -- > BRE Bank SA > ul. Senatorska 18 > 00-950 Warszawa > www.brebank.pl Regards, Henry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
