If z/VM supported virtual x86 systems, that support would make the platforms extremely competitive and, potentially, cause a sea change in the source of computing resource for x86.
Considering the average CPU utilization for x86 desktop systems (less than 15% by some estimates), such support could make for a good match; guest systems that do practically nothing and a virtualization system with a remarkable ability to allocate resources among a large number of guests. On 11/2/08 2:12 PM, "Paul Raulerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's what > confuses me- the two platforms, mainframe and x86 are hardly > competitive to each other. --. .- .-. -.-- Gary Dennis