On Tuesday, 10/28/2003 at 08:57 PST, Jim Sibley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> mp2000 - less than 200 bogomips > 9672-zz7 (g6) 630 bogomips > 2064-116 (z1) 820 bogomips > 2084-b16 (Trexx GA1) 2400 bogomips! > > The speed of the top of the line zSeries has increased > at four fold in the last 3-4 years. > > It seems that the literature is lagging what is now > available in the field. Is zSeries more competitive > now against other platforms than it was four years > ago? Why should anyone give a rats behind about bogomips numbers? A four-fold increase in bogomips says only that bogomips runs 4 times as fast as it used to. Your question about comparisons of competitiveness is interesting, but not in the context of bogomips. I would ask if TCO has improved in the last 3-4 years. The CPU selection is, of course, only one variable in the equation. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
