You say that like it's a negative thing. Seriously, what's your point? Do you really think a Cadillac costs 2x as much to build as a Chevy? Do you really think a large Coke at McDonald's costs them a fraction of what they charge? Do you really think that the manufacturing cost of the latest x86 chip drops significantly just because the next generation is released?
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, 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]> 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.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
