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[email protected] (Timothy Sipples) writes: > This cuts both ways. Obviously you're not going to support an OSA Express > or FICON Express adapter on an X86 server. :-) But yes, if you're doing > something like programming directly to an audio adapter in a PCI slot, > that's not likely to be a System z-hosted program. (Though you never know > as technology marches on.) re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#15 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#19 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? recent posts/thread in comp.arch about early days of fiber-channel standard and battles with mainframe channel engineers trying to layer half-duplex protocol (FICON) on top of underlying full-duplex (actually dual-simplex) infrastructure (i.e. half-duplex resulted in lower thruput than running dual-simplex) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#84 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#85 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#0 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#1 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#2 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland? some of this goes back to days before even ESCON was released. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
