On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected]> wrote:
> In <[email protected]>, > on 09/05/2012 > at 11:45 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said: > > >If it is because the z architecture is "not good" at numeric > >computation, > > The z architecture is fine for numeric computations. The problem is > that the implementation is competing with processors manufactured in > bulk. If IBM could sell millions of z boxen then they'd be able to cut > the price dramatically. > > I've always wondered what would have happened had IBM used a 370 > instruction set on the PC instead of Intel. "16MB ought to be enough for anybody"? :-) Since IBM wasn't manufacturing the chips, of course that wasn't even on the table, but it's still a VERY interesting Gedankenexperiment... -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
