Tony Harminc wrote, re the number of mainframes in the world: >I have no idea, but I still have my "VM Soars with 20,000 licenses" >poster from IBM. That was from the 1990s, IIRC.
Yeah, alas, that "20,000" apparently included every VM license ever sold at that point, including ones never installed, or certainly not running any more. So it included 9370s and P/390s and the like, and even IBM didn't think it was very real at the time. I consistently hear numbers in the 5K-10K range, but everyone's guessing (and most of 'em admit it). -- .phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568-6662 (cell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
