In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 07/18/2007
at 03:12 PM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Let me try to make it simple again. An IBM mainframe is, quite
>literally, an entire data center in one box.
I've never seen a data center that didn't have lots of other boxen,
e.g., consoles, disk drives, M/G sets, printers, routers, tape drives.
Further, while a small z9 may be one box, plenty of other mainframes
required multiple boxen, including some from IBM.
--
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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