On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:32:48 -0600, Tom Moulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm sure that I don't know much about this topic. > >Let me just ask then how it is that IBM can "ALLOW" z/OS to run on a PSI >machine. If PSI totally on its own writes firmware loaded at IPL time to >allow z/OS to run on an Itanium 2 dual core processor, then why couldn't the >customer buy z/OS and run the software on the machine. You don't "buy" z/OS. You license it to run on a particular machne. > Of course the >customer would be taking some risk because the support would probably have >to come from PSI primarily and not IBM. Seems to me like in the Amdahl days >each machine was assigned a "Capacity ID" by IBM and that was used for >pricing of software. When Amdahl started selling processors, the operating system was free. When IBM started to charge for it, they knew how much power an Amdahl processor had and where it fit in the pricing structure. It's harder for them to know that with am emulator. What stops you from putting in faster processors, or additional processors? Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
