----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Sipples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:02 AM Subject: Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article
> Dean Kent: > >Itanium likely could emulate zArch instructions faster than > >native zSeries systems can execute them.... > > No. > If you have any published numbers to verify that, it would be very nice to see them. The pace of improvements in the x86 world are quite stunning, because of the competitive nature of things. I find it hard to believe that IBM would spend the money for mainframe processors to keep pace when there isn't really much of an incentive to do so. Again, if there are any reliable comparisons between these processors, it would be great to see them. Otherwise, all we have are assertions. In fact, all we have are contradiction (cue Monty Python's Argument Lessons skit). Regards, Dean > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
