Yup, that's a square 1.5 km on a side, 2,250,000 square meters or about
556 acres. Not a bad sized farm in most places.....
Back on topic; take a look at the web page that the presentation is
posted on (http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/). There is some
interesting information there, as well:
IBM has added support for the decimal types in XL C/C++ for AIX and
Linux and z/OS, and in DB2 for z/OS, and is also adding support to many
other software products including DB2 V9.2 for Linux/Unix/Windows, z/VM
V5.2, Enterprise PL/I, the dbx debugger, and Debug Tool Version 8.1.
I wonder does the mention of z/VM 5.2 imply that the current Rexx
interpreter for that environment will be upgrade to use this new decimal
types?
John Summerfield wrote:
Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you haven't already seen this, it's worth a look. It's a
presentation by Charles Webb of IBM on the next IBM mainframe
processor, the z6. (Don't ask me where "6" came from.) The
thing that stood out for me was the 4GHz processor speed, but
of course there's lots of other very good stuff as well.
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/IBM-z6-mainframe-microprocessor-Webb.pdf
Mark:
A few important things to note:
6 km wire. That's a farm-sized piece of wire (I had to stop to estimate
the circumference of Dad's (former) farm. It would go around about once.
PS Didn't know Americans know what km are.
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John
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