Hopefully not far off topic, but this recently published article indicates that IBM may merge i, p and z series processors using POWER6. At one time I recall seeing an official IBM statement saying that this would never happen because of the unique requirements for (at that time) S/390 Architecture. Any thoughts on whether this is pure speculation, or if it is a real possibilty due to economics, advances in technology or perhaps a desire to make zSeries less costly and broaden the market? Could this result in affordable desktop mainframes (so we don't need to worry about whether IBM will ever allow zOS to run on Hercules)? ;-)
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT121905001634 Regards, Dean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
