According the unsolicited emails I have had the brazen temerity to open without the written permission of IBM's lawyers, we might expect a new system around 25 April.
There have been suggestions of a single-book system with 12 PUs - 8 of them characterisable. Up to four for operating system use, the other four must be IFLs, zAAPs, etc., subject to the usual rule that the number of any type of speciality engines may not exceed the number of OS engines. Oddly - not a word about performance options - kneecap levels, etc. Nothing. Zip. My guess would be z900 levels with some degrades. One suspicion is that the potential degrades (such as the z890 f/c 6110) have been held undefined in case IBM decides to move with its own emulation. But that is pure speculation on my part. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
