On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:32:58PM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote: > > I think you'll find the MP3K is just too slow (CPU speed). That was the > point of my talking about a z10; it's a much faster CPU than even a z9. > > But as an experiment to determine feasibility of the technology it would > be ok. I.e. it "runs". > Well, it's only a matter of time until IBM drops support for the MP 3000 and at the rate applications are being migrated off it, we're going to need a z10 BC (assuming such a beast is coming) to replace it. It would be very nice to be able to say we could support some XP servers on it. So I guess I'll think about bringing up a zlinux vm and playing with Bochs...
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