In <67954f200909151257l342a9afao13d169df75d09...@mail.gmail.com>, on 09/15/2009 at 12:57 PM, P S <zosw...@gmail.com> said:
>http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Server-Technology-Zone/The-Mainframe-The-Dinosaur-That-Wouldn-t-Die.html So, e.g., the 701, 702, 704, 705, 7030, 7070, 7080, 7090, weren't mainframes? As for single hardware line, IBM introduced more incompatible hardware families after the S/360 than they had before it. Given the lack of relocation hardware, "solved all of the shortcomings" seems a bit strange; 24-bit addressing makes "virtually unlimited storage" totally over the top. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html