On 2 Aug 2006 05:30:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I can't believe the cost of that system either - I think I saw on BBC News at >some point that it will end up having cost over 20 BILLION. That's UK Pounds.. >so more than that in USD. > >Gimme a mainframe and some decent programmers and I'll do it for a tenth of >that.. ;-)
Nohing in this posting excludes the possibility that the servers are mainframes. The physical disk drives probably would be the same regardless of CPU, just the controllers, connections and operating systems would be different. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

