> Basically a zAAP is a "z Application Assist Processor". It is really a
> normal CPU which has be somehow "crippled" so that it can only run a Java
> JVM.

Actually I believe it can run anything.  The kludge is that the z/OS dispatcher is 
modified at
1.6 (as is the Java Developers Kit at 1.4.1) so that z/OS maintains a separate 
dispatcher
queue for the zAAP(s) and the JDK marks its workload as eligible.

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  Phil Payne
  http://www.isham-research.com
  +44 7785 302 803

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