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
>
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