In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/19/2006
   at 11:40 AM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>I question the premise of this entire thread. System z CPU
>performance  is not poor! It's state of the art technology!

The issue isn't the quality of the engineering, it's economics of
scale. The zSeries processors are slow compared to comparably priced
chips made in much higher volumes.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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