I would add to this: very fast context switching between tasks. As Barton Robinson has said a number of times: z/VM is very good at managing large numbers of small things.
This implies a lot of context switching, which the mainframe design handles quite well. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: We've been over this several times in this list. The beauty of Linux on z/VM is not how much computing power the mainframe has. actually, mainframes don't have a lot of computing power. However, if you run an application that does a LOT of I/O, say a webserver that serves out a LOT of files or accesses a database, then the mainframe comes into its glory. The mainframe is all about I/O processing.
