>I'm still kind of curious what exactly you mean by: - Performance: wasted CPU cycles especially for handshaking between LPARs doing shared I/O
So am I. I haven't seen these issues since the early days of MDF and PR/SM in the 1980's. >I have thoughts on what you mean by these kinds of things, but I am reserving >judgement. I'm not. This sounds like a diatribe against something that has matured in the last 25 years. Rather than say "it's bad because I say it's bad", present some evidence. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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