I wouldn't necessarily say they are meaningless. Especially when vendors like CA charge by the mip.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MIPs vs MSU ... So we have gone from Meaningless Indication of Processor speed to Meaningless Service Units? ... In a way, yes. Last year, IBM introduced a new set of MSU's for the z/*90 processors. This is on the order of 10% smaller than the LSPR-derived MSU's. I still think they should have just dropped the $/MSU by 10%. As an aside, when IBM runs LSPR to come up with a processor definition constant (SU's/CPU-Sec), they never change it, even if LSPR is re-run and MSU's are changed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
