Radoslaw This reminds me of a comment made to me by a Russian who took me to see his ministry's[1] "computer" stand[2] at an exhibition in Sokolniki Park and then to see another ministry's stand. Disparagingly he translated one of the cards for me which, in a manner comparable to boasting how many hectares of grain had been harvested, proclaimed proudly how many kilometres of copper wire were present in the machine. I believe he mentioned that the people responsible were from the Urals. This was back in 1975.
Chris Mason [1] The Ministry of Instrumentation Technology of something similar and the "computer" was obliged to be a "control complex" since the other ministry, Radio, had the "computer" mission. [2] This stand showed a machine which was a copy of an East German design which was a copy of a Siemens design which was a copy of an RCA design which was a copy of the IBM 360! A DOS linkage edit printout was coming off the "1403" and I was able to tell them they had forgotten the INCLUDE statements for the I/O modules - a common DOS mistake! On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:31:32 +0200, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Edward Jaffe wrote: >> ... >> Frank DiGilio's Mainframe Mythbusting presentation cites the Wall Street >> Journal as saying distributed server farms can generate up to 3800 watts >> per square foot! A z9 EC generates only 312 watts per square foot. (Less >> than 10%.) > >I heard an opinion from some PC bigot that this is the proof that Intel >platform offers "denser computing power". More watts mean more CPUs, >channels, etc. <vbg> > > ... >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
