In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/21/2006
at 06:32 AM, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It was interesting to compare the boxes in different companies'
>mainframes - sometimes everything was in a box, other times these I/O
>functions were in another box.
Just like IBM. Quite a few IBM mainframes had inboard channels, using
cycle stealing.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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