Tony Harminc ponders: >To keep a wee bit on topic, though, I've wondered why IBM hasn't tried >to make the z chips more generally available. I mean, Intel doesn't >just make i86/i64 chips for PCs. Why not use the z chips in other >devices? (Heh - I think I know the answer to that one...)
You mean like the IBM System/4 Pi, AP-101, and AP-101S (and any successors)? Keep in mind that IBM optimizes zEnterprise processors for high performance (and highly concentrated performance) of multiple concurrent large scale workloads and continuous operations. That's not a good description of an iPad processor's requirements, for example. But if you've got some other ideas.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples Consulting Enterprise IT Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
