>1) The growing market for Solid State Disk (SSD) prior to the 3880-13 - HDS, EMC and STK (Amdahl?) were all shipping these boxes, and AFAIK at enormous margins.
While I don't remember the exact timing Amdahl's was the 6110 SSD. It, at least, wasn't the fiasco the 6100 Storage Processor was. We beta'd one of those, and our biggest complaint was: "If you see an IDCAMS CCW, interpret it!" We had a mixture of disk, and we wanted to use standard controls. It was all well and good that the control unit was 'smarter', but we wanted standard first; extended function later. Is Amdahl still around? The last I heard was a few years ago, when they called my boss to try and make a sale. He found out they no longer had any office near Toronto, and was actually calling from Sunnydale California. My boss said forget it, he wasn't going to deal with a hardware vendor that didn't even care enough to have a local office. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
