IIRC, the MP2000 used a P390, and the MP3000 used the P390E. In any event, they did not emulate the processor.
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 6:09 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Did the MP2000 and MP3000 simulate S/390 on x86 chips, use P/390 > technology or use tailored hardware? > > Since ZAAP (remember it?) and ZIIP are marketing gimmicks to begin with, > IBM could easilly add one to the mix if they believed that there was a > business case. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Andrew Rowley [and...@blackhillsoftware.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2022 8:23 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mark your calendars for July 10, 2022 - CustomPac intended > removal date > > On 19/05/2022 5:50 pm, Timothy Sipples wrote: > > That’s even more difficult to characterize, but (eyeballing it) 1000X > > must be too high. > > Maybe... it's hard to find a good comparison over that length of time. > But a Multiprise 2000 is in the original Pentium era. > > A $1500 Lenovo boasts an Intel i7 with 8 cores/16 threads. If 8 cores > gives e.g. 5x throughput, it only has to achieve 200x the single CPU > speed of a 1996 Pentium for 1000x increase overall. It might not be > 1000X but it must be close. > > > Having a zIIP gives you plenty of horsepower for z/OSMF, and having an > IBM z15 gives you System Recovery Boost which gives you…plenty of > horsepower for z/OSMF at least during the first 60 minutes. (It’s the > z/OSMF startup that can take a long time on a low capacity configuration. > > I wouldn't be surprised if once people start using z/OSMF, it's not just > the startup that is slow on a small system. Maybe IBM should give > everyone one zIIP with their z/OS 2.5 license... it might even be a > useful stimulus for smaller z/OS sites. > > -- > Andrew Rowley > Black Hill Software > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
