I wrote: > > Woo hoo! A whole 2.5 GiB? John, you're a wild man :-) > > > > This is one of the primary reasons we mainframers are a bit of an > > endangered species. We don't really have any understanding of what's > > "big" anymore. > >
Ed said > EAV has been announced with a 3390 architecture that supports up to > 268,434,453 cylinders or 228,158,547,671,880 bytes per volume! I have no > idea what's the "right" way to calculate disk space these days. Assuming > you get KB by dividing by 1024 and then MB, GB, TB, etc. by dividing by > 1000 each, that would be nearly 223TB *per* volume. I don't care which > platform you work with, that's BIG! Agreed. Current technology is capable of exploiting very large volumes but it isn't clear that customers are actually exploiting much of that. John's comment was fairly typical of comments you and I have both heard hundreds of times from customers and even from folks from IBM and the ISV side of the aisle at TDMs in the last couple of years. For a lot of those people a whole 3390-3 volume is still perceived to be a lot of space and there was a time when it really was. Just not today. All I was saying is that too many customer decision makers are stuck in the past. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
