The qualification that n must be a positive integer still should have been 
stated; however implicit the condition may be when considering the topic. One 
can't be too careful when posting to this list :-)


Regards,
Richard Schuh





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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Scott Rohling
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 7:44 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Base Processor?

You got me...  I need to read more carefully.   Cheers -

Scott

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Rich Greenberg 
<ric...@panix.com<mailto:ric...@panix.com>> wrote:
On: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:14:08PM -0700,Scott Rohling Wrote:

} ahem ..   as long as n >= 2          :-)
}
} Scott
}
} On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Schuh, Richard 
<rsc...@visa.com<mailto:rsc...@visa.com>> wrote:
}
} > Hats off to Alan. He has, again, come through with a sensible answer, and a
} > bit of history. Our MVS guys confirmed that there was no such thing defined
} > in their world (but I would wager that they can, at most, vary n-1 cpus off
} > of a system that has n).

No, applies even if n=1.  If n=1, you can vary off n-1 = 0 processors.
:-)

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