Note the application and the fact it is running on z series assuming Hans (who normally has a good track record) is correct. I kept the whole posting so that you get a flavor of the type of application and the cpu requirements.
Clark Morris On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 02:32:56 +0000 (UTC), in misc.transport.rail.americas Hans-Joachim Zierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Merritt Mullen schrieb: > > > Unfortunate name. Probably "HaCon Fahrplan System" or somesuch. The big companies will run checks for new products, to avoid any kind of unfortunate connotation in any major language, but when Hacon developed the software in the 1980s, it was a company with less than 10 employees. The first timetable CDs were sold for hundreds of DM a piece, to major travel bureaus etc. Then there was a "BTX" online system in the early 1990s, where you could use it for a fee. Change came, when a student wrote a script, which generated a mail-to-server service on a university host. I think this was at a time, when the www didn't exist yet, or at least Mosaic didn't, and Internet access was available for 5 digits per year. When Internet access became more common, the figures on the university computer went up, which convinced DB to set up a public server, in 1995 or so. > You would want to buy a "hafas" software application? > <grin> In fact, yes. If they can handle 1.6 million connections in one hour, out of 400000 stations and bus stops plus 40 million adresses, with response times of very few seconds, then it might be good enough for me as well. ;-) But the absurd part is: While the DB server runs on Linux (and an IBM mainframe cluster), the consumer offline PC version is only available for Windows. >Hans-Joachim > > >-- > Busy in a narrow valley: > > http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/6/3/1/8631.1188306000.jpg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
