Malcolm Beattie writes:
> 50 boxes: no problem. 200 boxes: 5 racks or 1U, getting messy.
> 1000 boxes: admin nightmare. Plus you don't get much too many
> built-in reliability features with a 1U box. Now consider that you can
> run *thousands* of separate Linux images on a S/390 box which consists
> of just one or two frames (i.e. the size of one or two racks). It'll
The slides from my talk "IBM Mainframe Hardware from a Linux
Hacker's Viewpoint" are now available at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/newcastle2001/index.html
There may well be a few errors in the facts and figures (mainly because
most of the reason for the talk was gathering together large numbers of
facts and figures from disparate sources). However, the attendees
seemed to like it, despite the fact that I had to rush through part of
it due to lack of time.
--Malcolm
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Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services
