Timothy Sipples wrote:
On this general topic, has anyone else priced z800s lately? A z800 ranges
from ~40 (smaller than the smallest Multiprise 3000) to ~630 MIPS with 10
capacity settings over 4 engines. Minimum memory is 8 GB. Runs all
software (i.e. it's 64-bit). It's even Parallel Sysplex capable.
Just for fun I looked up the 1990 (marketing list) price for an ES/9000
Model 120: U.S. $70,500. (That's $104,449 in 2005 U.S. dollars, adjusting
for inflation.) That was a 31-bit uniprocessor model (and that's it) with
256 MB maximum memory (the $70,500 didn't get you that :-)) and a maximum
of 12 channels. I can't remember if the 120 had LPARs or not, but the
z800 has up to 15.
Is that a fair hardware price comparison?
No, it's not!
Compare price per MB/MIPS/whatever for any current machine vs machine
from 1990. Surely the difference will be even bigger when we come back
to 80's. The only question is why. It's not fair in any sense.
Now, we can start never-ending thread:
I remember when I sold a car and bought 200MB hard drive.
(Feel free, to put here your favorite story about price of 3330, or core
memory for S/360.)
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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