Re: MIPS (was: z8 ??)

2006-04-17 Thread Ted MacNEIL
And the MIPS tables have been pissing me off for some time. Modern workloads are so complex these numbers really are pretty useless. More than. I cannot tell everything I know, but: 1. They didn't test much of the big stuff. Rather, they produced a straight line from 17+ (z/990) and 21+ (z9)

Re: MIPS (was: z8 ??)

2006-04-17 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/17/2006 5:37:21 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was bad enough when we had to manage billing table for ISV's! Now, depending on the age of the box, we now have multiple tables for IBM. No wonder mainframe cost management is giving the plaform