R.S. wrote: >That's why I described statement about MIPS growth as a smokescreen masking sad truth: mainframe world is shrinking.
Yup. If a vendor says: I have sold X MIPS in year 2009 making this $999 million dollars, what does that means to me? MIPS per box/machine/case MIPS per CPU MIPS per sale transaction(s) of some $$$$ Or if you have a dual or quad core CPU, how do you say how many MIPS per part of the CPU assembly or for the WHOLE CPU assembly? I'm really taking this 'x MIPS sold in y months' story with a little grain of pure salt. ;-D Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second for some interesting info. ;-D There is a refence of 'zMIPS' there, but a search in IBM's pages doesn't turn out any hits... :-( Your turn to put a smoke screen on me... ;D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
