Marcy, avoid large disk images for Linux under VM unless it
is very low I/O type data. VM does NOT support PAV, MVS does.
The only way MVS will support the large dasd with reasonable
performance is because of PAV - we don't have it. So if you
can, ask for 3390-1 or 3390-3. At this point, I believe
When somebody tells me something is very fast - I always
wonder at the value. Like having a car that will easily
do 150MPH on roads supposedly limited to 65mph... It's
fun, it's fast, it's expensive, but not all that useful.
Though I've heard that context switching is faster -
is it relevant?
I'v
On Sul, 2003-04-06 at 16:17, Barton Robinson wrote:
> When somebody tells me something is very fast - I always
> wonder at the value. Like having a car that will easily
> do 150MPH on roads supposedly limited to 65mph... It's
> fun, it's fast, it's expensive, but not all that useful.
The PC is che
Phil Payne wrote:
>> I'm confused. And I've been following this whole discussion from
>> the beginning. Can one of you, or any of you, reiterate?
>
> I've ben here since 1969, and I still get confused.
Yup. Mind you, I like to *sow* some confusion, given how
often I seem to reap i
Well, how about this for confusing then.
If you can run Linux/390 on a PC using an emulator, and the emulator cranks out about
12 MIPS on a 1ghz machine,
then it is pretty fair to say that the PC is doing something around 12 MIPS, right?
(Well, maybe not quite that simple.
We do run several set
