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SETI@Ufie	by Afterburner	2006-11-19 12:55:59
WHAT THE HELL IS KERMIT RUNNING ???!!!	by stacato	2003-12-19 02:15:13
z-series? (n/t)	by Apfel	2003-12-19 02:35:33
whatever it is. if monkeys on speed	by stacato	2003-12-19 02:38:00
Well, a z/Series would be faster than that anyway.	by fudje	2003-12-19 03:47:40
But it has to do with I/O-channel speed rather than CPU speed. There's no point in putting more than about 800MHz in an IBM mainframe because the I/O just does not flatten out - which is the main reason why x86 is so slow. Even lower-end PPC has better I/O handling (And I mean low end, as in, like, Apple won't put it on a Mac low end) than x86 (Having said which z-Series run on higher end PPC. It's a big scale, and mostly determined by the I/O bus. The z/800 has 12 or 24 fibreoptic I/O channels per processor. The z/900 has 24 wider fibreoptic I/O channels. The z/990 is more or less like the z/900 but has more processors to use and an extra set of boards.
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didn't even know those existed.	by stacato	2003-12-19 04:15:54
Which? (n/t)	by fudje	2003-12-19 04:26:25
Z series computer?	by Pic	2003-12-19 05:11:56
ROFL	by Apfel	2003-12-19 05:26:48
Indeed!	by Pic	2003-12-19 05:30:46
The IBM zSeries eServer	by fudje	2006-11-19 12:55:59
yeah, not something common to PC users...	by schneigl	2003-12-19 11:08:02

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