You left out: c) Amazingly good-looking, intelligent, and affable technical staff.
Jon <snip> It means Itanium is 4.3 times faster than AMD. I doubt it. BTW: IMHO comparison of CPUs is senseless when we talk about *computer speed*. What about I/O ? I saw Hercules on PC, almost 40MIPS, but TSO logon time was over 5 minutes. Every I/O operation was slooow. IMHO the strengths of mainframe are: a) I/O b) OS </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
