P S wrote:
You say that like it's a negative thing.
No, I clearly mentioned, that it's NOT. See my disclaimer.
I just provided more accurate description of things. "Specialty" really
means "less functional". "Basic CP" means "all specialties in one".
In English (same in Polish) "specialty" is understood as "specially
tuned for specific application", "optimised for".
While I understand marketing requirements, I don't see any reason to
follow their language which is unfair.
My opinion about: it is bad that "MVS legacy world" is so expensive, it
is good that "modern JAVA/Linux/whatever world" is cheaper.
(additional displaimer: my English is rather poor, so it is really hard
to me to express all the nuances and differences I would like to express)
Seriously, what's your point? Do you really think a Cadillac costs 2x
as much to build as a Chevy?
US-centric language. For me Chevy is Korean piece of sh*t (YES! Korean,
former Daewoo), but still better than Polonez.
Let me present more general example: 4-cyl. 2.0 dm3 engine is usually
significantly more expensive than almost identical 1.6 dm3. Cost of
production is quite similar.
Do you really think a large Coke at
McDonald's costs them a fraction of what they charge?
I don't go to McDonalds (Wendy's, BurgerKing, other junkfoods), even if
I'm in the U.S. And avoid Coca Cola at all.
Do you really
think that the manufacturing cost of the latest x86 chip drops
significantly just because the next generation is released?
Again, better example: cost of manufacturing Pentium 200MHz is the same
as cost of manufacturing Pentium 75MHz (pleas help yourself and place
your favorite current CPU name and frequency).
Seems naive and needlessly negative to use such a term.
???
And while on
the one hand it's true that specialty engines help keep the cost of
z/OS and friends high,
No. It is a way to sell cheap CP's for other-than-z/OS purposes. In
other words everyone except legacy z/OS users will benefit.
No, benefit is bad word. They probably wouldn't choose the platform
otherwise.
they also allow folks to make more use of same
without paying for the MIPS on those specialty engines that they
aren't using for z/OS. This is bad?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:52 AM, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] MY ADDRES!!!> wrote:
That's why I translate "specialty engines" as "castrated engines".
The only specialization is lack of some abilities, just to support one
workload, but not other. Everything behind is "sales peach" .
Big technical effort done to keep high prices on monopoly (MVS) market and
be make prices lower for competitive market (JAVA, Linux, etc.).
Regards
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P.S. It is quite good manner to sign the message with the name. I'm
pretty sure that neither your first nor last name is "zoswork".
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