Eric N. Bielefeld wrote:
So, if your a PWD member, you can run 64 bit mode, but if your company just needs 10 - 30 MIPS or so, you can only run 31 bit mode? That doesn't make any sense. Is there anyone out there from IBM who can explain this, and tell us why IBM wants to kill the FLEX box? I'm sure that a few of the IBMers on this list must at least know who to ask and could find out, but I bet we won't hear from any IBMers.
If you run 10-30 MIPS, chances are you're running z/VSE. That operating system runs on the vast majority of "production" FLEX-ES systems. There are other z/Architecture emulators coming into the picture and real mainframe hardware now starts as small as 28 MIPS, so the landscape has changed considerably since FLEX-ES was first introduced. IBM may be taking a wait and see approach.
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