On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:24:00 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >That statistic cited in the above article (and not from IBM) is just >amazing to me: more (new, incremental) MIPS forecast to be sold in 2009 >than were *installed* in 2000. Wow.
I wonder how 2009 compares to years past in that regard. Is the trend upward or downward when looking at "MIPS" installed in any given year compared to the installed base nine years prior? That statistic taken by itself means nothing, IMO. Most new computers are to replace an existing one. I'd be more interested to know how big an increment in processor power the replacement machines average compared to the machines that they replace. And how much of that increment is soft capped or otherwise restrained and unavailable? The Z900 first shipped in December, 2000, so I'd guess that it was an insignificant portion of the installed MIPS in 2000. Before that the biggest processor you could get was a 9672-ZZ7. Today's 64 processor z10 is somewhere around 15 to 20 times the MIPS of that box. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
