McKown, John wrote:
OK, then why is there such a perception that the zSeries is CPU underpowered? It is because the other "servers" are, in reality, usually "one trick ponies", doing only a single function whereas the zSeries is usually doing literally 100s and even 1000s of functions concurrently?
Thankfully, I'm no psychologist. But, like any educated person, I'm well aware that perception and reality often have wholly insufficient overlap -- often because of how things are portrayed by the media.
For example, most "ordinary" people I run into are surprised to find out that mainframe computers are still being used in the 21st century. Before I set them straight, they are completely ignorant of the fact that Western Civilization _runs_ on mainframe computers! How could their perceptions be so wrong???
Then there are philosophy students that will argue, "Perception *is* Reality". I prefer to stick to bits and bytes myself...
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