Sorry about the title of the post where I said 'assignation' I must say 'assigment'.
Thanks to those who correct my BIG mistake (apart from my love to mainframe servers and our 'assignation') 2012/4/16 Thomas Berg <thomas.b...@swedbank.se> > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För > > R.S. > > Skickat: den 16 april 2012 16:42 > > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Ämne: Re: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 & z114 > > > > W dniu 2012-04-16 16:33, Alvaro Guirao Lopez pisze: > > > I have seeked but found nothing about this, why the new servers have > > been > > > named z196& z114 and not Z11 EC& Z11 BC? > > > > > > Why not z11? I don't know. > > Why 196 and 114? I heard about it: > > 1xx means FIRST generation (of what? naming convention?) > > 96 means number of processors inside. Note, you can buy "only" 80 of > > them, but it really contains 96 processors, inlcuidng SAPs and spares. > > 14 is for M10 model (4 are for spares and SAPs). > > > > > > BTW: I really can't understand "marketing names" like z196, TS1140, or > > DS8000. Why don't they use names like Jaguar (ok, it's partially used), > > MAGSTAR, T-REX, MtBlanc or Cindy Crawford? > > > > Last, bit not least: Athlon, or Pentium sounds much better than CMOS > > 11S. > > > > > > -- > > Radoslaw Skorupka > > Lodz, Poland > > I would then suggest names more like: zEUS, HERA, HERMES, GILGAMESH, etc. > :) > > > > Regards, > Thomas Berg > ______________________________________________________ > Thomas Berg Specialist AM/DQS SWEDBANK AB (publ) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Un saludo. Álvaro Guirao ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
