Phil Smith III wrote:
Tom Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Didn't I read somewhere that the P6 uses the same decimal floating point unit?
Dunno if/where you read it, but it does. The z10 and p6 share a lot of "DNA"
(silicon)...some (not IBM) say they share 100%.
I was at a meeting in Poughkeepsie last week in which John Birtles tried
to set the record straight with respect to these rumors. He made it
clear that z10 does *not* use p6 microprocessors and there are no plans
for the two technologies to merge. He mentioned that the rumors started
when IBM started making common parts between p & z.
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