On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:35:29 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote: > A. Tongue was in cheek.
Sorry, I didn't notice the smiley. > B. As an example, the document imaging solution we use runs under >Windows Server 200?, some dozen squatty boxes. If Windows Server 200? >ran on zHardware, we could save several squatty box licenses and run on >more reliable hardware. Hell, perhaps Exchange would run faster and more >stable on zHardare. Maybe. But then, as Gil suggested, perhaps the instability that you've noticed is due more to software errors than hardware problems. > p.s. Shouldn't implementation of x86 and above be just a different set >of millicode? Umm.... Well, i suppose you could look at it that way. According to Charles Webb's presentation on the z10 (or z6 as it was called at the time) 668 of the 894 instructions on the z10 are implemented entirely in hardware. That means that there is no millicode to support them. Guess how many of the x86 instructions are implemented in hardware. -- 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
