On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:06 AM, David Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Mainframe operating systems don't scale well past 64 cores in a single
> system image"
>
> Wonder what made The Register say that?
>

ISTR that both z/VM and z/OS had limits on the number of CPUs they could
address, though I thought it was 32, and of course with PR/SM it's still not
a good argument. I think it's probably correct on the surface but ultimately
meaningless.

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