[Gllug] Comparison

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 30 Oct 2001, robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
>I had the meeting with IBM about Linux on the mainframe last week and they
>said that their boxes had limitations:-
>1. Don't use CPU intensive software.
>2. Don't use memory intensive software.

Ummm. What we mean by 'memory intensive' is not quite what they mean,
to put it mildly. It is true that their high end UNIX iron may be
better for CPU and memory heavy applications (but not stability) than
the S/390; but that doesn't mean that an individual simulated beige
box on the S/390 isn't better off than an actual beige box in a rack
of 1,000 beige boxes.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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