In a message dated 7/16/02 4:21:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Would the 360 be comparable to a G4, a 6100, or an SE/30 or, more or less
what, in terms of power and utility?
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All System/360, System/370 and System/390 mainframes featured 2-, 4- and
6-byte instructions (register-register, register-storage and storage-storage,
respectively, with a few exceptions), and were capable of I/O performance
which FAR exceeded the capabilities of any CISC (Intel, e.g.) or RISC (SPARC,
e.g.) processor of today ... or of the immediate future.
The fastest System/390 system ever made was probably that which was made by
my former employer, and which had an aggregate data rate, and an instruction
processing rate, which FAR exceeded anything that is in current production in
the micro world.
We tested up to 16 processors, and the operating system was fully capable of
"dispatching" units of work ("tasks", "SRBs", etcetera) simultaneously on all
of them, with very few exceptions.
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