Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-16 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes: > ​Thanks. I was thinking of the CPs used by user software. It's interesting > that the I/O channels use a Power chip.​ In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they had ... which quickly becomes the fibre channel standard .

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-16 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:21:11 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > >Interesting. But one glaring mistake. The z series does not have a Power > >chip inside it. > > The z System processor is not a power

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:21:11 -0500, John McKown wrote: >Interesting. But one glaring mistake. The z series does not have a Power >chip inside it. The z System processor is not a power processor. However, z System machines do have Power chips in them. IIRC, each channel has 2 power cores to run i

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Paul Gilmartin wrote: ITYM "teleported". You don't know until you open the box. -- gil Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Ohm were in a car. Heisenberg was driving and a policeman pulled him over. "Do you know how fast you were going?" the policeman asked Heisenberg. "No, but I know where I am,"

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:14:01 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 15 June 2016 at 17:06, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > >> http://www.cringely.com/2016/06/15/mainframe-dead-long-live-mainframe/ >>> >>> Goodbye Mainframe. Hello Quantum Computers. IBM is probably looking to >> sell the mainframe division to raise

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-15 Thread Tony Harminc
On 15 June 2016 at 17:06, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > http://www.cringely.com/2016/06/15/mainframe-dead-long-live-mainframe/ >> >> Goodbye Mainframe. Hello Quantum Computers. IBM is probably looking to > sell the mainframe division to raise cash for building them there critturs. So how many IBM lawy

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Dana Mitchell wrote: Interesting reading http://www.cringely.com/2016/06/15/mainframe-dead-long-live-mainframe/ Goodbye Mainframe. Hello Quantum Computers. IBM is probably looking to sell the mainframe division to raise cash for building them there critturs. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-15 Thread Edward Finnell
Yeah we hashed that out when the Z6/Z10 rolled out, same fabrication, something like 62% instruction overlap but not a Power chip. As Dr. Webb says 'siblings not twins'. The z6 rollout can be found here: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/IBM-z6-mainframe-microprocessor-Webb.pdf Search on IBM

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-15 Thread John McKown
Interesting. But one glaring mistake. The z series does not have a Power chip inside it. On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Dana Mitchell wrote: > Interesting reading > > http://www.cringely.com/2016/06/15/mainframe-dead-long-live-mainframe/ > > Dana > > ---

Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-15 Thread Dana Mitchell
Interesting reading http://www.cringely.com/2016/06/15/mainframe-dead-long-live-mainframe/ Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM