z9-109 4Q 03 is wrong, z9-109 was announced in 2Q 05 and later renamed to z9 EC in 2Q 06 with z9 BC announcement
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tommy Tsui wrote: > > ..I > > think z9 is announced around 3 years...As I remember, IBM never try to > > announced a new model of mainframe computer just three years later... > > Using http://www.tech-news.com/ as a reference, the history of IBM CMOS > mainframe processor hardware generations is as follows: > > Processor 1stAvail > -------- -------- > 9672-G1 3Q 94 > 9672-G2 3Q 95 > 9672-G3 3Q 96 > 9672-G4 2Q 97 > 9672-G5 3Q 98 > 9672-G6 2Q 99 > z900 1Q 00 > z800 1Q 02 > z900-GA2 2Q 02 > z990 2Q 03 > z9-109 4Q 03 > z890 2Q 04 > z9EC 3Q 05 > z9BC 2Q 06 > z10 1Q 08 > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 > Los Angeles, CA 90045 > 310-338-0400 x318 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

